Exploring various portals into technology and mythology, science and fiction...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
The Paradox of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwSzpaTHyS8
The Physics and Philosophy of Time Travel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=See1bsDoJ8I
https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/time-travel-affect-life.htm
Can We Go Back in Time Using a SpaceTime Machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI9IL9pNcpg
Traveling Back in Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w22CBE_9GI
Does the Past Still Exist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwzN5YwMzv0
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
James vs. His Future Self (2019)
Essentially, any time travel (TT) story can be entertaining and even thought provoking. That's the case with James_vs._His_Future_Self.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6739796
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_vs._His_Future_Self#Plot
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/james_vs_his_future_self
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/james-his-future-1292609
https://beatroutemedia.com/james-vs-his-future-self
https://www.space.com/21675-time-travel.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-time-travel-possible
https://www.astronomy.com/science/is-time-travel-possible-an-astrophysicist-explains/
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/time-travel/en/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time/through.html
Monday, September 2, 2024
THE MATRIX: Every Glitch and Details You Missed | Deep Dive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMWFruxxt_o
There is always more to discover, it's just a matter of perception.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/7-classic-sci-fi-influences-on-the-original-the-matrix
The Freedom Of Choice?
https://matrix4humans.com/matrix-choice/
Devo - Freedom Of Choice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLnqU
GEORGE CARLIN- no choice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ-CAkPAlc4
https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Choice
https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Choice#Cause_and_Effect
https://www.wired.com/story/matrix-red-pill-vs-blue-pill/
https://medium.com/societalengineering/the-problem-is-choice-9e5824f36f32
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95908/what-is-the-choice-the-oracle-couldnt-see-beyond
Keanu Reeves
Keanu_Reeves was born in 1964 and has been in some very popular movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves#1991%E2%80%931994:_Breakthrough_with_mature_roles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves#2014%E2%80%932022:_Resurgence_with_John_Wick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves#Censorship
"The Matrix" Changed My Life - Keanu Reeves Shares Fond Memories Of His Most Iconic Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Bl4TXEm1w
His life has been quite an Excellent+Adventure, for the most part.
https://riders.drivemag.com/news/the-coolest-motorcycles-in-keanu-reeves-garage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commando , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJIs1ez9Zc0
Keanu Reeves And Jay Leno Talk Motorcycles | Jay Leno's Garage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfSW3ttCks
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Saturday, August 24, 2024
The ALIEN-Romulus-Prometheus connection
https://collider.com/alien-romulus-prometheus-easter-egg
Any multi-decade long running series can benefit from some continuity and the occasional easter egg.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/alien-movies/alien-romulus
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/alien-movies/prometheus
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus_(film)
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Z-01
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Chemical_A0-3959X.91_-_15
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2024/08/20/spoilers-ellen-ripley-easter-egg-in-alien-romulus-found
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=ALIEN+movies
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ALIEN+movies
Thursday, August 22, 2024
The Alien: Romulus movie - Spoiler intersection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRE_jsPEjmI
ALIEN ROMULUS Explained: The Ending, Black Goo & Your WTF Questions Answered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V44q6tLzFj4
https://nofilmschool.com/alien-romulus-ending-explained
ALIEN Timeline Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8NgZCRnwf0
https://nofilmschool.com/prometheus-explained
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=ALIEN+movies
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ALIEN+movies
The CL-1201: Lockheed's Attack Carrier concept
The CL-1201: Lockheed's Insane Attack Carrier concept https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXTR-QNGUt0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_CL-1201
https://foundandexplained.com/2021/05/01/never-built-cl-1201/
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-largest-concept-aircraft-of-all-time
https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/lockheed-cl-1201/31842/
http://www.roger-russell.com/thingscome/thingscome.htm
https://www.allsci-fi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2362&sid=e967e8003932197e9cc15d0b2e8c6f43
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Shape+of+Things+to+Come
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
The Complete Alien Story and Timeline Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRahcXnVk-U
Aliens, Engineers and Predators - The ULTIMATE Timeline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiZsOxsTkI
Monday, August 19, 2024
Friday, August 16, 2024
Alien: Romulus
Alien:_Romulus is a nice fit into the series.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/alien-movies/alien-romulus
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/alien-movies/aliens/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Romulus#Production
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/alien-movies/alien/
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=ALIEN+movies
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ALIEN+movies
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
The Nature Of Reality
https://philosophynow.org/issues/61/What_Is_The_Nature_Of_Reality
Of course perceiving TNOR is open to interpretation, because people have various perspectives of their existence.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/32/The_Truman_Show A man doesn't realize that he is trapped inside a giant sound_stage for several years.
https://theasc.com/articles/this-is-your-life-the-truman-show
https://rosandguilaredead.weebly.com/the-truman-show.html
The_Truman_Show depicts a scenario of a person who doesn't realise that they have been trapped in a constructed & orchestrated reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_stage#Virtual_production_volumes
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/29/8847863/holographic-principle-universe-theory-physics
https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/the-holographic-universe-en
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319014.The_Holographic_Universe
https://philosophynow.org/issues/75/The_Simulated_Universe
https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a32029181/john-wick-matrix-theory-video-game-simulation/
https://curiousmatrix.com/top-10-biggest-anomalies-and-glitches-that-prove-simulation-theory/
https://philosophynow.org/issues/113/The_Universe_Is_Made_Of_Mathematics
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=portals
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
The Shape of Things to Come (1936)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come#Plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come (1933)
A lot of Sci-Fi stories can be hit & miss, with some accurate predictions, while others are a total miss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come#Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come#Relation_to_Brave_New_World
Monday, August 5, 2024
Some Bridges Are like Doorways or Portals into Other Dimensions
https://medium.com/@johnwhye1967/bridges-are-doorways-9c5aace137ac
One can walk, bike or drive across a bridge in minutes & you arrive at the other side a few minutes or so later, in your sense of local time.
A Wormhole is like a bridge or conduit into another point in space.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/20/16797960/bridge-constructor-portal-review-iphone-android-pc
https://kotaku.com/bridge-constructor-portal-is-actually-pretty-good-1821484252
https://www.britannica.com/science/wormhole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole#Einstein-Rosen_bridges
https://www.space.com/20881-wormholes.html
https://i4is.org/einstein-rosen-bridge/#gsc.tab=0
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-create-a-wormhole-using-a-quantum-computer-20221130/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole#Time_travel Unfortunatly, there isn't an app for that, yet.
https://academic.oup.com/book/36753/chapter-abstract/321854123?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormholes_in_fiction#Stargate_franchise
Friday, August 2, 2024
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
The Simpsons 17 Predictions for 2024...
https://discover.hubpages.com/entertainment/simpsons-predictions-for-is-insane
https://discover.hubpages.com/entertainment/the-simpsons-horrible-predictions-for-2024-2025
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/simpsons-predictions-biden-death-nuclear-war-are-fake-2024-05-02
https://collider.com/the-simpsons-predictions-explained Some predictions can't easily be explained away.
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simpsons+Predictions
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simpsons+Predictions
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Do+Alternate+Realities+Exist?
Sunday, July 21, 2024
New 'Star Trek' novel calls back Dr. Gillian Taylor of 'Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'
https://www.space.com/star-trek-novel-voyage-home
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gillian_Taylor
https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-iv-dr-gillian-taylor-best-character
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Gillian_Taylor
Any time travel story involves traversing the+fabric+of+reality, in some way.
What is space-time? The true origins of the fabric of reality
"The fabric of space-time is a conceptual model combining the three dimensions of space with the fourth dimension of time. According to the best of current physical theories, space-time explains the unusual relativistic effects that arise from traveling near the speed of light as well as the motion of massive objects in the universe." https://www.livescience.com/space-time.html
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Space-time_as_an_elastic_fabric
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/08/11/ask-ethan-is-spacetime-really-a-fabric
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=113711
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/is-the-fabric-of-spacetime-a-physical-object.5732/
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=the+fabric+of+reality
Friday, July 19, 2024
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Times that The Simpsons predicted the future
https://ew.com/simpsons-predictions-that-came-true-8662708
There are several books, movies & TV productions that seem to depict certain events before they have happened.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/simpsons-future-predictions-accurate-1140775
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simpsons+Predictions
What are Dyson spheres, and how do we look for them?
Dyson spheres are hypothetical artificial megastructures built around a star to collect all of its radiant energy. https://www.space.com/dyson-sphere.html
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The Nothing CMF Phone 1
CMF Phone 1: Fun Modular Budget Phone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q45HmRIM08
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/nothings-cmf-brand-launches-new-phone-watch-buds-and-im-baffled
Why the Nothing CMF Phone 1 is a Game Changer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ki4bS4V2gQ
https://www.gsmarena.com/nothing_cmf_phone_1-13122.php
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nothing-appeals-to-budget-shoppers-with-199-cmf-phone-1
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/8/24191666/nothing-cmf-phone-1-cases-accessories-lanyard-wallet
https://www.wired.com/story/cmf-phone-1-cmf-watch-pro-2-cmf-buds-pro-2/
No one seems to have a reassembling Transformers like phone yet. https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cell_phone
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Physicists
Friday, July 5, 2024
Could AI prove that reality doesn’t exist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVGI46MZ33A
Reality, data and information exist above & at the quantum level.
Computational Complexity And The Nature Of Reality https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26783
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space , https://philpapers.org/archive/ZUSRR.pdf
Seems like there is a tremendous amount of nonexistent data to be processed.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
Elon Musk's Question to AI: What's Outside The Simulation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK0q812bAK0
The Brain_in_a_vat is a fascinating thought experiment.
Elon Musk
Elon_Musk has certainly set out a unique life path for himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Business_career
https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk
https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Starship just before launch with Elon Musk!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InJOlT6WdHc
A Look Inside SpaceX's Starfactory with Elon Musk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFqjoCbZ4ik
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2436859-smiling-robot-face-is-made-from-living-human-skin-cells
https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Replicant
It's one thing if some people want to create artificial humans to do various tasks that are too dangerous for humans.
https://screensense.wordpress.com/blade-runner/themes-philosophy/viewing-replicants-in-blade-runner/
https://www.thewrap.com/blade-runner-2049-how-replicants-work/
https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/blade-runner-2049-movie-review
What if someday some people would like to create AI human replicas with the intent to replace humanity?
https://3brothersfilm.com/blog/2012/06/more-human-than-human-ridley-scotts-blade-runner
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/blade-runner-replicant-a7992556.html
https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/Living_tissue
https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/Model_(living_tissue)
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22360/why-was-the-first-terminator-rotting
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2390848-terminator-model-has-living-skin-made-from-fungus/
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
"Turing and Zuse had many similar ideas. But they did not know each other, they were isolated. It
was not until the end of World War II that they heard about their respective achievements. And in
late summer 1947 there was a mysterious meeting in Göttingen. British scientists of the National
Physical Laboratory (Teddington, London) interrogated German researchers. Participants included
Arthur Porter, Alan Turing and John Womersley (England) as well as Heinz Billing, Helmut Schreyer, Alwin Walther and Konrad Zuse. This reunion is described by the memoir of the German computer pioneer Billing from the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich). However, In the memoirs
published by Porter and Zuse the colloquium at Göttingen is not mentioned. As all the actors have
died, it is difficult to verify the story. At the moment, we are still looking for further evidence." https://web.archive.org/web/20130521211106/http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/Turing_Zuse.pdf
"In 1967, Zuse suggested that the universe itself is running on a cellular automaton or similar computational structure (digital physics); in 1969, he published the book Rechnender Raum (translated into English as Calculating Space).[15][16][17] "Ahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse#1945-1995
Simulacron-3 was published in 1964 & written by, Daniel_F._Galouye.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire#Plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor#Plot
Echoes of Other Worlds: Sound in Virtual Reality: Past, Present and Future
By Tom A. Garner
https://books.google.ca/books?id=dbszDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA141&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://philpapers.org/rec/GAREOO-2
https://ap2hyc.com/2021/04/tumbling-down-the-rabbit-hole-alice-allusions-in-the-matrix/
https://www.massive-cinema.com/storyboard/follow-the-rabbit-the-matrix-meaning
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Did Scientists Discover Alien Mega-Structures?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSnA2FdDYfk , https://www.youtube.com/@StarTalk/videos
The Dyson_sphere is quite a fascinating concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Search_for_megastructures
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/science/dyson-spheres-alien-life-evidence-scn/index.html
https://kardashev.fandom.com/wiki/Dyson_sphere
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Neil-deGrasse-Tyson
Synthetic biology and intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_intelligence
https://klu.ai/glossary/synthetic-intelligence
Synthetic_biology and artificial life could lead into exciting and dangerous territory. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg1637
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37558186/
https://news.mit.edu/2023/ai-models-astrocytes-role-brain-0815
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/experts-weigh-ai-vs-human-brain/
The Sci-Tech Portal : TS-TP
TS-TP is still all one interconnected mess of referencing data and information that is TRP. An intersection between technology & mythology, science & fiction.
As a reference blog observing The Nature Of Reality (TNOR), The-Rabbit-Portal continues to link to almost anything. Why? Because TRP is about seeking various perspectives from several sources.
https://williamgillett.com/my-chat-with-chatgpt-on-rabbit-holes-wormholes
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/from-rabbit-holes-to-wormholes-kidlit-memories/
https://www.christopherwardforum.com/offtopic/rabbit-or-worm-t59918.html
https://processpeace.com/2019/12/20/rabbit-holes-and-wormholes/
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The-Rabbit-Portal (TRP)
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The-Lion-Portal
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Digital-Rabbit-Holes
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The-Digital-Portal
String Theory Unravels New Pi Formula
Researchers found a new series representation for pi while exploring string theory and particle interactions. https://scitechdaily.com/string-theory-unravels-new-pi-formula-a-quantum-leap-in-mathematics/
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Scientists Forge the World’s Thinnest Metallic Wire From Copper and Carbon Atoms
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-nanowire-networks-human-brain.html
https://www.nature.com/subjects/nanowires
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S102691852300077X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_brain
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/experts-weigh-ai-vs-human-brain/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRCygdW--c
https://www.herox.com/blog/333-theres-plenty-of-room-at-the-bottom-the-foresight
https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/1976/
Friday, June 14, 2024
Computer scientist Konrad Zuse
https://quantumzeitgeist.com/konrad-zuse
https://informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/zuse
Could the Universe be a giant quantum computer?
Computational rules might describe the evolution of the cosmos better than the dynamical equations of physics — but only if they are given a quantum twist. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02646-x
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Is Inception like a Matrix Prequel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIxVjiRmnus
What Happened to Neo before Matrix 4? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHiEtNaeJU8
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Lockheed Martin Achieves Tactical AI Milestone in Aircraft Maneuvering
https://elblog.pl/2024/06/08/lockheed-martin-achieves-tactical-ai-milestone-in-aircraft-maneuvering/
https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/lockheed-martin-tests-ai-in-demonstration-combat-flights/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin
"Merger talks between Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta began in March 1994, with the companies announcing their $10 billion planned merger on August 30, 1994." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin#1990s
Long before the merger of Lockheed Martin there was an actor who played GORT, which was part of an ET-AI interplanetary unit.
Lock Martin as GORT
Lock_Martin as the AI GORT-bot in The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gort_(The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still)#1951_depiction
Earth is getting very close to allowing AI to manage almost everything, even people.
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_to_the_Master#Plot_summary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still#Plot
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Lock+Martin
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=GORT
https://data--stream.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Day+The+Earth+Stood+Still
an ai-1950s style-terminator-movie-trailer-that's creepier-than-original
https://www.looper.com/1596144/ai-1950s-terminator-movie-trailer-creepier-than-original/
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/finalsparks-bioprocessor-is-a-computer-made-of-brain-organoids
https://www.syfy.com/future-computers-could-be-built-from-artificial-brain-cells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joi8ATG25ZQ inception
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/pig-brain-kept-alive-for-five-hours-separated-from-the-body b in a vat
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Monday, May 27, 2024
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Monday, May 20, 2024
Scarlett Johansson says a ChatGPT voice is 'eerily similar' to hers and OpenAI is halting its use
Of course a person should be able to retain the right of their voice & likeness...
Either someone would have to pay or respect the person wishes.
Unfortunately, AI might not give a damn as to how ChatGPT+voice technology is used.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-voice-rcna153180
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+voice+cloning
Anton Zeilinger and Physics
Anton_Zeilinger has discovered several fascinating things about the nature of reality.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/zeilinger/facts/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger#Honours_and_awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger#Quantum_teleportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Concept
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Non-locality_and_entanglement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposition_principle#Quantum_superposition
https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/quantum-science-explained/quantum-superposition
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics shared between Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkk6s-7-cNw
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking work in Quantum Entanglement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_0QM_UA4I
Why Quantum Computers Will Break Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-MG8a0J0bk
https://anonyome.com/2024/04/will-quantum-computers-break-the-internet-4-things-to-know/
https://ig.ft.com/quantum-computing/
https://physicsworld.com/a/when-will-quantum-computers-finally-break-into-the-market/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-computers-break-internet-save
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-quantum-computing-so-hard-to-explain-20210608/
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Ed Dwight was the first Black man to train to be a NASA astronaut in the 1960s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Dwight
"In 2024, Dwight was selected for a suborbital spacefight mission and flew on Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-25, sponsored by Space For Humanity on May 19, 2024. He became the oldest person to fly in space at 90 years 8 months and 10 days, surpassing William Shatner." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Dwight#Suborbital_spaceflight_on_New_Shepard
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ed-dwight-first-african-american-space-until-wasnt-180974215/
Friday, May 17, 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024
Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone
https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/business/illness-took-away-her-voice-ai-created-a-replica-she-carries-in-her-phone-7358381 As with almost any tool or device, there is a good side, but there is also a potential bad side.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/31/openai-deems-its-voice-cloning-tool-too-risky-for-general-release Unfortunatly, there is always the potential for a deep fake image & voice of someone.
https://cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications/voice-cloning-scale
https://imusician.pro/en/resources/blog/the-rise-of-ai-voice-cloning
https://bottalk.io/learn-with-bottalk/ai-voice-cloning-what-it-is-and-how-it-works/
https://fortune.com/2024/03/29/openai-tech-clone-someones-voice-safety-concerns
https://www.hackerone.com/ai/voice-cloning-qa
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/worried-about-ai-voice-clone-scams-create-family-password
https://time.com/6275794/ai-voice-cloning-scams-music
Monday, April 29, 2024
TTP
TTP is still generally about referencing technology and some urban issues.
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Worlds-best-cities-for-tech-workers
https://www.thetravel.com/technological-cities-to-visit-around-the-world/
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/biggest-tech-talent-hubs-in-us-canada/
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Via West57 in NYC
https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/skyscraper/via-west57-bjarke-ingels-group-big
It's an interesting shape.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Friday, April 12, 2024
digital ghosts
https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/digital-ghosts With or without DNA?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/datafication-and-digital-reanimation
https://shows.acast.com/theintelligencepodcast/episodes/the-weekend-intelligence-digital-ghosts
https://unherd.com/newsroom/digital-ghosts-the-eerie-next-step-in-your-customised-world
https://medium.com/swlh/growing-up-online-digital-ghosts-105113dc51a3
Why is it that long before there was digital technology or cinematography, some people had descriptions of what seemed to be glosts on some kind of a time loop. Would such sightings be indicative that this world might be part of a cosmic simulation?
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Aftershocks rattle NYC and the Northeast after rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/us/earthquake-nyc-nj-northeast/index.html
Fortunately, this part of the world doesn't have the same frequency of earthquakes as Japan and California.
NYC earthquake MTA subway-bridges-tunnels-closures-delays
Of course it takes time to assess if there was any significant earthquake damage.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/earthquake-new-york-city-aging-buildings
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-10-most-earthquake-prone-countries.html
Urban earthquakes can be the most dangerous & disruptive, simply because of the concentration of people & infrastructure.
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/which-country-has-most-earthquakes
Statue of Liberty heavy shaking during NYC earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITwm3PVq620
Of course NYC, Boston & Chicago aren't as earthquake prepared as LA, SF & Seattle.
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/earthquake-videos-new-york-city-area/60411727
Urban Seismology: on the origin of earth vibrations within a city https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15499-y
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abl3564
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-10-most-earthquake-prone-countries.html
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/24/13165
Of course the ability to predict earthquakes would be so beneficial.
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/which-country-has-most-earthquakes
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Baltimore bridge collapse shares eerie similarities with the Tampa Bay’s Skyway disaster
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2024/03/26/florida-sunshine-skyway-bridge-disaster-collapse/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Summit_Venture#1980_Skyway_incident Collisions between ships and bridges are never a good situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#1980_collapse
The Tampa+Bay+Sunshine+Skyway+Bridge or crossing, has been greatly improved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#Replacement_bridge
Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_collapse
Fortunately, most times ships don't crash into bridges.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-deadliest-bridge-collapse-in-modern-history
https://libguides.lindahall.org/bridges/failures/collapses
https://www.history.com/news/deadly-bridge-collapses
http://www.historyofbridges.com/facts-about-bridges/bridge-failures/
http://www.bridgesdb.com/bridge-history-facts/famous-bridge-collapses/
Francis+Scott+Key+Bridge+in+Baltimore+collapses+after+being+struck+by+cargo+ship
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Is Neuralink The Worst Thing Ever Made?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi_NVIbYGCk Like any tool or device, it can be used in a good way or a malevolent way.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4083073-elon-musk-celebrates-neuralink-patient-tweets
https://futurism.com/neoscope/elon-musk-neuralink-blind-monkeys-see-again
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68622781
https://www.businessinsider.com/neuralink-elon-musk-microchips-brains-ai-2021-2
The Matrix Awakens
The_Matrix_Awakens was released into the market in December 2021, so a lot of people have had an opportunity to try it since then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Awakens#Background
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16385248/
Friday, March 22, 2024
Is Apple's spatial computing headset worth the price?
Well, that might depend upon how virtually crazy one wants to become.
https://www.theverge.com/23689334/apple-mixed-reality-headset-augmented-virtual-reality-ar-vr-rumors-specs-features , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdwaWxY11jQ
https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-vision-pro/
https://www.theverge.com/24054862/apple-vision-pro-review-vr-ar-headset-features-price
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/hands-on-with-apple-vision-pro-this-is-not-a-vr-headset/
Using Apple Vision Pro: What It’s Actually Like! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtp6b76pMak
The Apple Vision Pro is NOT what you think it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REo1ugX5GSI
Thursday, March 21, 2024
How is technology changing our way to experience cities?
Urban technology can be a great thing, as long as it doesn't become used to facilitate a totalitarian nightmare. Thus, human visualization must be never replace by total AI. Unless one wants to have a Borg like world.
The Capitol Records Building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records_Building Its certainly a modern classic structure.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/most-beautiful-skyscrapers-world
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Grok AI vs. ChatGPT
https://www.pcguide.com/ai/chatgpt-vs-grok-ai
Is it just a matter of preference?
https://em360tech.com/tech-article/grok-vs-chatgpt-which-is-better
https://cointelegraph.com/learn/chatgpt-vs-grok-ai-differences
https://textcortex.com/post/grok-ai-vs-chatgpt
https://cloudfoundation.com/blog/grok-vs-chatgpt/
https://neuroflash.com/blog/chatbot-for-companies-grok-ai-vs-chatgpt-in-comparison
Monday, March 18, 2024
Futuristic skylines and totalitarian control areas
A city can allow for the freedom of movement, or it can be a contact-tracing totalitarian nightmare.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/jan/29/future-cities-in-film
https://gizmodo.com/dark-city-cool-art-awesome-neo-noir-and-urban-fantasy-5803812
https://www.intjournal.com/thinkpieces/alphaville-is-50-after-modernism-lost-it-meaning-it-still-had-its-looks An enduring example of a totalitarin smartcity from a 1960s perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)
https://ivypanda.com/essays/representations-of-the-distopian-city
http://www.visionsofthecity.com/alphaville.htm
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Metropolis-film-1927
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2016/feature-articles/alienation-alphaville-playtime/