Category Archive: The Singularity

Guest Post: The Digital Polis – Nicholas Carson Miller

I invited Nicholas Carson Miller to guest post on the shape of a particular internet culture…I hope you enjoy his work -SportLinguist I. The New Prehistory We can’t go ask ancient peoples what… Read More

What I got for Christmas…

Daft Punk’s film “Electroma” Daft Punk’s album “Human After All” Gilles Fauconnier’s & Mark Turner’s “The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities” Stephen C. Levinson’s “Space in Language and… Read More

On the Second Law of Thermodynamics: a quote from one of my favorite books

“Sometimes initial conditions can exert such an all-pervasive influence that they create the impression that a new type of law is acting. The most familiar case is that of the so-called “second law… Read More

Think Like a Bacterium: OSMOS, Naïve Quorum Sensing, & the iPad

I was recently sucked into playing OSMOS on my iPad.  I never play video games (usually I am too busy: wife, art, school, work) but I did happen to spend four hours straight… Read More

finally a post remotely related to sports…

I admit it, the “Sport” in “SportLinguist” might lead you to believe that I write about sports.  Well, I don’t…but this automated software does write about sports.  In fact, all you have to… Read More

The First Shall Be Last: A shift from First Person to Third Person in the Scientific Enterprise

I was reading this article by Ray Kurzweil and immediately connected with an idea that he expressed which I have been trying to articulate over the past year or so. He said that basically, in… Read More

Timecard For My Future

I am going through the planning process for blog posts for 2011 and as a foreshadowing to a couple of guest posts (one on astrosociology and another on the singularity) I thought I… Read More

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