Tag Archives: Musings

Is the future of techology to be found in fiction?

Posted on May 5, 2007 by stalker

When Jurassic Park was on at the cinema, I remember laughing out loud with a couple of my computing mates when the young girl, Lex, looks at a computer screen and says: “It’s a UNIX system. I know this.” At … Continue reading →

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Are computers making us stupid?

Posted on March 1, 2007 by stalker

In 1996, I listened to Lofty Zadeh, the daddy of fuzzy logic, give his keynote speech at the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Design’ conference, Stanford University. He described the excitment of artificial intelligence in the 1950s and how Marvin Minsky, father … Continue reading →

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Stalkers in space and Facebook in your face

Posted on February 20, 2007 by stalker

I created my first webpage in 1995, which has since disappeared forever as even www.archive.org thinks it’s too old to store. Fingers poised over my keyboard, I felt shy about what to write. Eventually, I restricted myself to my research … Continue reading →

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