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MediaWiki 1.32.1 https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Coming_Wave&diff=20005&oldid=20001 The Coming Wave 2024-03-28T01:13:24Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:13, 28 March 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="diff-multi" lang="en">(2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>WORKING</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>WORKING<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Suleyman, Mustafa, with Michael Bhaskar. ''The Coming Wave''': Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma''. New York City: Crown, 2023.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Suleyman, Mustafa, with Michael Bhaskar. ''The Coming Wave''': Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma''. New York City: Crown, 2023.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From introductory blurbs (np):</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From introductory blurbs (np):</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>  &quot;One of the greatest challenges facing the world is to devise forms of governance that harness the benefits of AI and biotech while avoiding their catastrophic risks. This book provides a deeply thoughtful account of the 'containment challenge' of these two technologies.&quot; — Jason Matheny, CEO of RAND Corporation, former assistant director of [U.S.] national intelligence, former director of IARPA [The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity].[https://www.iarpa.gov/who-we-are/about-us]  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>  &quot;One of the greatest challenges facing the world is to devise forms of governance that harness the benefits of AI and biotech while avoiding their catastrophic risks. This book provides a deeply thoughtful account of the 'containment challenge' of these two technologies.&quot; — Jason Matheny, CEO of RAND Corporation, former assistant director of [U.S.] national intelligence, former director of IARPA [The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">— sic on &quot;Activity&quot;</ins>].[https://www.iarpa.gov/who-we-are/about-us]  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>  &quot;''The Coming Wave'' makes an eye-opening and convincing case that advanced technologies are reshaping every aspect of society: Power, wealth, warfare, work, and even human relations. Can we control these new technologies before they control us? [...]&quot; — Jeffrey D. Sachs, [...] president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>  &quot;''The Coming Wave'' makes an eye-opening and convincing case that advanced technologies are reshaping every aspect of society: Power, wealth, warfare, work, and even human relations. Can we control these new technologies before they control us? [...]&quot; — Jeffrey D. Sachs, [...] president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l15" >Line 15:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 16:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>RDE, finishing, 12Mar24 f.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">++++++++++++++</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Prologue starts with &quot;QUESTION: What does the coming wave of technology mean for humanity?&quot;, followed by the response of an AI. An experienced reader — some 40 years teaching college-level English, &quot;pro-bono&quot;/&quot;on spec&quot; analyst and/or judge of a lot film scripts — Rich Erlich would've guessed the author a bright undergraduate in a somewhat advanced writing course, wisely using the services of a professional-level proofreader.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Introductory chapter, final sentence on &quot;containing&quot; key technologies — using for human good; avoiding serious harm: &quot;Containment is not, on the face of it, possible. And yet for all our sakes, containment ''must'' be possible&quot; (p. 19). </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>RDE, finishing, 12Mar24<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, 27Mar24 </ins>f.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Background]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Background]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{DEFAULTSORT: Coming Wave: Technology, Power}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{DEFAULTSORT: Coming Wave: Technology, Power}}</div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=THE_CIRCLE_(film)&diff=20002&oldid=7615 THE CIRCLE (film) 2024-03-28T00:39:54Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:39, 28 March 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''THE CIRCLE. James Ponsoldt, dir., co-script with Dave Eggers.''' Based on the novel ''[[The Circle (novel)|The Circle]]'' by Dave Eggers. Danny Elfman, music. United Arab Emirates, USA: Imagenation (sic) Abu Dhabi FZ et al. (production) / STX Entertainment (US theatrical distribution), 2017 (see IMDb for complex production and districtution).[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4287320/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''THE CIRCLE. James Ponsoldt, dir., co-script with Dave Eggers.''' Based on the novel ''[[The Circle (novel)|The Circle]]'' by Dave Eggers. Danny Elfman, music. United Arab Emirates, USA: Imagenation (sic) Abu Dhabi FZ et al. (production) / STX Entertainment (US theatrical distribution), 2017 (see IMDb for complex production and districtution).[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4287320/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The film in its theatrical-release form either has coherence problems or is too subtle, fair, and balanced for its own good, so it's difficult to say just where it comes down on the issues it raises. Like the source novel ([[The Circle|q.v.]]), it is in intention a gentle dystopia, satirizing a world of &quot;transparency&quot; and, to use the name of a company not mentioned in the movie, &quot;Constant Contact.&quot; The film hints at but does not develop the theme of work-place oppression of the high-tech variety: instant surveys of customer satisfaction, the cybernetic equivalent of the assembly-line speed-up, demands for employees to participation in the social life of The Circle campus community. See for spy-camera surveillance; smart-phone linked mob action, including tracking down people; a reference to guaranteeing the safety of children by constantly tracking them with chips implanted in bone. Above all: the end of privacy with the dictum &quot;Secrets are Lies&quot; and the technology to track people constantly. Cf. numerous recent works, including ''[[The Last Enemy]]'' of 2008 and those cited by the critics.[http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-circle-2017/critic-reviews]  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The film in its theatrical-release form either has coherence problems or is too subtle, fair, and balanced for its own good, so it's difficult to say just where it comes down on the issues it raises. Like the source novel ([[The Circle <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(novel)</ins>|q.v.]]), it is in intention a gentle dystopia, satirizing a world of &quot;transparency&quot; and, to use the name of a company not mentioned in the movie, &quot;Constant Contact.&quot; The film hints at but does not develop the theme of work-place oppression of the high-tech variety: instant surveys of customer satisfaction, the cybernetic equivalent of the assembly-line speed-up, demands for employees to participation in the social life of The Circle campus community. See for spy-camera surveillance; smart-phone linked mob action, including tracking down people; a reference to guaranteeing the safety of children by constantly tracking them with chips implanted in bone. Above all: the end of privacy with the dictum &quot;Secrets are Lies&quot; and the technology to track people constantly. Cf. numerous recent works, including ''[[The Last Enemy]]'' of 2008 and those cited by the critics.[http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-circle-2017/critic-reviews]  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Note contrast of campus for The Circle with the natural world in the San Francisco Bay area, and with the musical motif of &quot;Simple Gifts,&quot; sometimes heard with a suggestion of electronic distortion.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Note contrast of campus for The Circle with the natural world in the San Francisco Bay area, and with the musical motif of &quot;Simple Gifts,&quot; sometimes heard with a suggestion of electronic distortion.</div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Coming_Wave&diff=20001&oldid=19968 The Coming Wave 2024-03-28T00:38:30Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:38, 28 March 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12" >Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>  &quot;[...] Advances in AI and synthetic biology have unlocked capabilities undreamed of by science fiction, and the resulting proliferation of power threatens everything we've built. To stay afloat, we must steer between the Scylla of accessible catastrophe and the Charybdis of omnipresent surveillance. With every page turned, our odds improve.&quot; Kevin Esvelt, biologist and associate professor at MIT Media Lab</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>  &quot;[...] Advances in AI and synthetic biology have unlocked capabilities undreamed of by science fiction, and the resulting proliferation of power threatens everything we've built. To stay afloat, we must steer between the Scylla of accessible catastrophe and the Charybdis of omnipresent surveillance. With every page turned, our odds improve.&quot; Kevin Esvelt, biologist and associate professor at MIT Media Lab</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Science fiction has dreamed such things, though expressing itself in its own language. For AI, see in the wiki some of the works listed here,[https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;search=AI&amp;fulltext=Search] perhaps starting with such classic cyberpunk as ''[[Neuromancer]]'' or such computer-takeover dystopian fiction as the ''[[Colossus]]'' trilogy. For the social effects of near-future industrial revolutions, note ''[[Player Piano]]'', [[METROPOLIS]], and [[THE CIRCLE]]. Biotech is a more recent interest, but begin perhaps with some of the works listed here.[https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;search=biotech&amp;go=Go]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Science fiction has dreamed such things, though expressing itself in its own language. For AI, see in the wiki some of the works listed here,[https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;search=AI&amp;fulltext=Search] perhaps starting with such classic cyberpunk as ''[[Neuromancer]]'' or such computer-takeover dystopian fiction as the ''[[Colossus]]'' trilogy. For the social effects of near-future industrial revolutions, note ''[[Player Piano]]'', [[METROPOLIS]], and [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">THE CIRCLE (film)|</ins>THE CIRCLE]]. Biotech is a more recent interest, but begin perhaps with some of the works listed here.[https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;search=biotech&amp;go=Go]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Bureaucratic_Experience&diff=20000&oldid=19994 The Bureaucratic Experience 2024-03-27T03:35:28Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:35, 27 March 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WORKING</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Hummel, Ralph P. ''The Bureaucratic Experience.'' Second Edition. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1982.'''  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Hummel, Ralph P. ''The Bureaucratic Experience.'' Second Edition. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1982.'''  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>  • First edition NYC: St. Martin's 1977. Fourth Edition subtitled ''A Critique of Life in the Modern Organization''. NYC: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1994. Fifth Edition subtitled ''The Post-Modern Challenge''. London, UK: Routledge, 2007. As of March 2024, full bibliographic information can be found here.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_P._Hummel]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>  • First edition NYC: St. Martin's 1977. Fourth Edition subtitled ''A Critique of Life in the Modern Organization''. NYC: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1994. Fifth Edition subtitled ''The Post-Modern Challenge''. London, UK: Routledge, 2007. As of March 2024, full bibliographic information can be found here.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_P._Hummel]</div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=GHOSTBUSTERS:_FROZEN_EMPIRE&diff=19999&oldid=19998 GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE 2024-03-24T23:39:14Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:39, 24 March 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">WORKING</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE (2024). Gil Kenan, director, co-script.''' Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman, script (based on the 1984 GHOSTBUSTERS et seq.). Eve Stewart, production design. Columbia Pictures et al. / Sony, 2024.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21235248/]</ins>[https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt21235248/?rf=cons_tt_atf&amp;ref_=tt_pub_upslb_login&amp;rf=cons_tt_atf<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">][</ins>] See [[GHOSTBUSTERS (2016)]] for the series.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE (2024). Gil Kenan, director, co-script.''' Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman, script (based on the 1984 GHOSTBUSTERS et seq.). Eve Stewart, production design. Columbia Pictures et al. / Sony, 2024.[https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt21235248/?rf=cons_tt_atf&amp;ref_=tt_pub_upslb_login&amp;rf=cons_tt_atf] See [[GHOSTBUSTERS (2016)]] for the series.</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Comic-horror movie, with not much horrific and many interesting SF gadgets (science fiction if ghost-catching depended upon science, which it does in the world of the film, at least enough for a comic premise).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Comic-horror movie, with not much horrific and many interesting SF gadgets (science fiction if ghost-catching depended upon science, which it does in the world of the film, at least enough for a comic premise).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As with the earlier films, we see (and hear a bit) the superimposition of high-technology ghostbusting equipment upon the ectoplasmic-spiritual/paranormal ghosts, and other supernatural creatures. The central containment, however, is a bronze-era sphere with very ancient writing on it, product of the bronze-age new technologies of making bronze, and writing. Note also a number of vehicles, notably the Ghostbusters' converted ambulance, aerial drones and remote-controlled miniature vehicles for ghost-retention, the converted ambulance taken over by something ghostly — cf. and contrast [[CHRISTINE]] and [[KILLDOZER]] — a possessed tricycle, and a very large truck hijacked by miniature Stay Puff Marshmallow Man doughboys.[https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As with the earlier films, we see (and hear a bit) the superimposition of high-technology ghostbusting equipment upon the ectoplasmic-spiritual/paranormal ghosts, and other supernatural creatures. The central containment, however, is a bronze-era sphere with very ancient writing on it, product of the bronze-age new technologies of making bronze, and writing. Note also a number of vehicles, notably the Ghostbusters' converted ambulance, aerial drones and remote-controlled miniature vehicles for ghost-retention, the converted ambulance taken over by something ghostly — cf. and contrast [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">CHRISTINE (film)|</ins>CHRISTINE]] and [[KILLDOZER]] — a possessed tricycle, and a very large truck hijacked by miniature Stay Puff Marshmallow Man doughboys.[https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=GHOSTBUSTERS:_FROZEN_EMPIRE&diff=19998&oldid=0 GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE 2024-03-24T23:36:03Z <p>Created page with &quot;WORKING &#039;&#039;&#039;GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE (2024). Gil Kenan, director, co-script.&#039;&#039;&#039; Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman, script (based on the 1984 GHOSTBUSTERS et seq.). Eve Stewart, p...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>WORKING<br /> <br /> '''GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE (2024). Gil Kenan, director, co-script.''' Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman, script (based on the 1984 GHOSTBUSTERS et seq.). Eve Stewart, production design. Columbia Pictures et al. / Sony, 2024.[https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt21235248/?rf=cons_tt_atf&amp;ref_=tt_pub_upslb_login&amp;rf=cons_tt_atf] See [[GHOSTBUSTERS (2016)]] for the series.<br /> <br /> Comic-horror movie, with not much horrific and many interesting SF gadgets (science fiction if ghost-catching depended upon science, which it does in the world of the film, at least enough for a comic premise).<br /> <br /> As with the earlier films, we see (and hear a bit) the superimposition of high-technology ghostbusting equipment upon the ectoplasmic-spiritual/paranormal ghosts, and other supernatural creatures. The central containment, however, is a bronze-era sphere with very ancient writing on it, product of the bronze-age new technologies of making bronze, and writing. Note also a number of vehicles, notably the Ghostbusters' converted ambulance, aerial drones and remote-controlled miniature vehicles for ghost-retention, the converted ambulance taken over by something ghostly — cf. and contrast [[CHRISTINE]] and [[KILLDOZER]] — a possessed tricycle, and a very large truck hijacked by miniature Stay Puff Marshmallow Man doughboys.[https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> RDE, finishing, 24Mar24<br /> [[Category: Drama]]</div> Erlichrd https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=YouTube_says_it_will_require_creators_to_label_%27realistic%27_AI_content&diff=19997&oldid=19995 YouTube says it will require creators to label 'realistic' AI content 2024-03-24T03:09:09Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:09, 24 March 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="diff-multi" lang="en">(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&quot;YouTube says it will require creators to label 'realistic' AI content.&quot; By Kat Tenbarge, NBC News on line, 18 March 2024, as of 23 March 2024, available here.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{</del>[https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-says-will-require-creators-label-ai-content-rcna143937] / Also on</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>&quot;YouTube says it will require creators to label 'realistic' AI content.&quot;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </ins>By Kat Tenbarge, NBC News on line, 18 March 2024, as of 23 March 2024, available here.[https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-says-will-require-creators-label-ai-content-rcna143937] / Also <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">covered by the USA TODAY NETWORK — NEW JERSEY, &quot;AI detector: YouTube unveils rules to identify deepfake, artificial intelligence content.&quot; By Juan Carlos Castillo, ''Asbury Park Press'' 19 March 2024.[https://www.app.com/story/news/world/2024/03/19/ai-artificial-intelligence-detector-youtube-new-rules-identify/73028269007/] Rpt. &quot;YouTube calls for AI videos to be labelled.&quot; ''Ventura County Star'' in Business section, 22 March 2024: 10A. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In ''The Ventura County Star'' </ins>on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">same page as the Associated Press story by Mike Corder, &quot;Robots rooting out sick tulips in Dutch fields,&quot; with the subtitle &quot;AI helps machines spot diseased bulbs to prevent spread of virus.&quot; On line as &quot;An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields&quot; (19 March 2024).[https://apnews.com/article/tulips-netherlands-robot-technology-46ec590b882188ee6d7428df8f04bb9e]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">See for real-world debate in first quarter of 21st c. for the threats — e.g. &quot;deep-fakes&quot; — and promise of AI (stopping the spread of disease in very pretty plants, of high economic importance).</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">RDE, finishing, 23Mar24</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Category: Background]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table> Erlichrd https://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=YouTube_says_it_will_require_creators_to_label_%27realistic%27_AI_content&diff=19995&oldid=0 YouTube says it will require creators to label 'realistic' AI content 2024-03-24T01:04:59Z <p>Created page with &quot;&quot;YouTube says it will require creators to label &#039;realistic&#039; AI content.&quot; By Kat Tenbarge, NBC News on line, 18 March 2024, as of 23 March 2024, available here.{[https://www.nb...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&quot;YouTube says it will require creators to label 'realistic' AI content.&quot; By Kat Tenbarge, NBC News on line, 18 March 2024, as of 23 March 2024, available here.{[https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-says-will-require-creators-label-ai-content-rcna143937] / Also on</div> Erlichrd