Tony is a Geek

Coming on October 31st......    " 95 Theses " INTRODUCTION THESES "This website is part of a wider project in public engagement. My long-term academic interest has been in public understanding of technology, and in particular popular understanding (and misunderstanding) of the Internet and digital technology generally. I like the idea of using a ‘thesis’ as a way of starting off a discussion. Long ago, this was a standard way of conducting scholarly debates. I thought it would be interesting to try it again as a way of sparking public interest in what digital technology is doing to us . We’re in the early stages of a radical transformation of our information environment. It’s happening on a scale that has only been matched once before in history — when Johannes Gutenberg invented printing (or at any rate re-invented it in Europe). The print revolution transformed Western society and shaped the world in which — at least until recently — most of us grew up. ...

.......My creative brain has been going overtime the past couple of months (okay, I'll admit since 2001, but formulating since 2010....) and soon, very soon, it's going to over-spill into something awesome....... I'll share, when mind transforms into matter and reality.... until then here are some things to distract the mind .................................................................................... ....................................................................................

I do dislike hardware technology waste.  There seems to be a mindset trend of " well, that's 2 years old, it's out dated, chuck it away and get a new one ".  Apple does this a lot.  okay, okay, there are probably a lot of places that will recycle your "old" iPhone/iMac for you and you'll take the £xxx financial hit for the privilege of using the latest hardware version, but it still erks me that hardware that is still pretty decent gets thrown away when it can still be really useful. Read about the journey of keeping a PowerPC G5 iMac alive by installing Ubuntu Linux onto it - all, so I can use the machine to help build my new AI robots.... http://tonyisageek.blogspot.co.uk/p/dont-bin-that-powerpc-g5-mac.html http://tonyisageek.blogspot.co.uk/p/dont-bin-that-powerpc-g5-mac.html http://tonyisageek.blogspot.co.uk/p/dont-bin-that-powerpc-g5-mac.html

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/10/10/holodeck-design-lab-of-the-future/ 'Nvidia Holodeck' is a real product – and it's almost what you're expecting, though not intended strictly for Starship crew use: Oh and they've also built AI into it to.... "Holodeck is also AI-ready, meaning that you can train agents and deploy them in the virtual space to test your designs against anticipated real-world conditions, including virtual operators and incidental personnel and staff who might interact with any machinery or other objects being prototyped before they’re built." https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/10/10/holodeck-design-lab-of-the-future/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/05/10/holodeck/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/technologies/holodeck/