Are you human? Are you a ghost? Or perhaps a Monster or a chat bot programmed to take over the World? Happy Halloween all you ghouls. This week, we will discuss being digital in a human World. Hint sounds like a potential name for a users manual for Life Naut or perhaps a future book […]
Hello again everyone. Randy ONeal here. Once again I feel that I have to apologize for my absence. On Friday August 23rd I went in for a heart catheterization and they found that my left anterior descending “Widow Maker “artery was 80% clogged. They put a stent in my heart to go with the others […]
Hey guys and gals how are you this week? Have you given any thought to my last blog? Well today we’re going to discuss Digital immortality, Avatars, and Mind Files. So, you want to jump on the band wagon. Maybe you have heard about Digital Immortality and you want to live forever. Wait hold […]
Hello and welcome to Lifenaut. My name is Randy ONeal and I am a new Lifenaut blog contributor. Bruce Duncan invited me to share weekly blog posts for fellow Lifenaut users. I am a guitarist, a programmer, a husband, a futurist, and a father of 4 children. Above all else, I to am a […]
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTH: RECENT ADVANCES.. Although many fear it and imagine a dystopian society governed by tyrannical automatons that completely replace humans, the truth is that Artificial Intelligence – with the dangers and adjustments that entail its implementation in various industries – has the potential to revolutionize and improve all sectors, from customer service and marketing to retail, […]
During this challenging time in our country, let’s reflect on the roots of Martin Luther King’s value of non-violence. https://theconversation.com/meet-the-theologian-who-helped-mlk-see-the-value-of-nonviolence-89938?xid=PS_smithsonian
By Kelan Mahon : ” If current trends remain the same, Facebook will become a virtual graveyard by 2065 with the number of dead members outweighing the living.”
Bina48 and Bruce Duncan, Director of the Terasem Movement Foundation will be speaking at next months Worlds Fair Nano two day tech exhibition at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint, Saturday September 16th. “One of the more intriguing expert speakers in the lineup is Bina48, one of the worlds most advanced social robots. Commissioned […]
A recent tech story that illustrates the idea of using today’s digital tools to pay “yourself forward” to future generations, caught my eye this week. The news article was Wired Magazine’s article “How a Son Made a Chatbot of His Dying Dad.. James Vlahos’ father was dying, so he set out to save his dad’s memories […]
NYT Photography; “One of the most amazing parts of Mr. Aguilera-Hellweg’s book comes at the end, where he has pictures of Bina48, a geminoid bust made by Martine Rothblatt to resemble her spouse, Bina Rothblatt, who spent 20 hours recording her life history. Those recordings were programmed into the machine, along with other algorithms, to create […]
