George Dvorsky's discussions

Thanks for noticing :-) Read more

Yes - an idea whose greatest proponent was Churchill — one of the few people who actually grasped the geopolitical implications of postwar Europe at the time. Read more

Thx. Read more

The body does continue to produce glucose thru glucogenesis, but in insufficient amounts. Read more

From the paper: Read more

Interesting! Read more

Yes, but they say the results will be inconsequential so long as there's a limited and even distribution of the turbines. Specifically, 1 degree C increase in temp, and 1% increase in precip. Read more

Well put — an uploaded, modified, and enhanced mind may be far removed from our biological brain, both in terms of function and form. In the past, I've likened it to the reptilian part of our brain; we may retain just a tiny nugget of our evolutionary lineage. Read more

Hey, that's a good article idea... Read more

You make a good point about data storage, and the potential for radically advanced computation that won't require cosmological scale resources. Sometimes our predictions are silly extrapolations, merely super-scaled versions of current technology. I think you may be right. Read more

I don't necessarily agree or disagree — but either way, it won't prevent this sort of future from happening. Read more

You are spot on. Privacy is already a concern today — imagine the implications when we're considerably more "wired" into the information superstructure. Read more

It's my favorite bad movie. Read more

I could not agree more. Read more

"Inanimate!? I'll show *you* inanimate!!"

Anywhere in the world. Read more

:-P Read more

They actually account for that in their statistics. Kidding. Read more

Love this. Read more

Yup, I feel the same way. Read more