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Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is right up there with the MidEast, Ukraine, Democracy, Inflation and Kim Kardashian among the memes that we see in our news feeds today. *On Wall Street, AI hopes drove a big boost in the stock market. People are going to lose jobs and machines are going to take over and we can rake in some bucks: Hurray!  *For my brother, it’s a quick “Belated Birthday Card source” [Hell with Hallmark]  *For headline writers, AI fever has been a chance to get clicks, hits and page views based on FUD - Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.  *For an older writer, [me] AI nudges one forward, raining down ideas when his own synapses are flagging .*&%!  I spent over 40 years in the computer trade ‘press’ – as the Web took over it was called ‘media’. I wrote was about what was inside these boxes. The Definition of computer is 1-input, 2-processing, 3-output – all of which is enabled by 4-memory. The last 5 years before I retired I had the Big Data beat. That w...

  Humanism applied to technology was a mindthrob in my youth - looking to make a mark, I guess. Found odd: Not much mention of it on this blog. But share here a link to the Thread of Humanism on Moon Traveller. Oddly came to this morning with Pansychism or Panthiesim on my mind. The morning after a Night of Pints. That Pansychism, in opposition to humanism. Got out my Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry [Kuno Meyer]. Asked Google if St Francis was a panthiest [Answer: No, his comment on nature were all straight from Scripture.]  My guru on humanism is Jacob Bronowski, a part of my directed studies back in the Milwaukee days. I looked him up this morning and, in fact, he had something to say in the panthiest way: You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. Human or Cell? At what level do we want to encounter the Unive...