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Our Future
No doubt you are all heartily cheesed off hearing about AI and how it is going to change our lives. Today I want to concentrate on two differing visions. One is from Bill F Gates, [more…]
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Communism
Will AI benefit humanity?
Elon Musk has said that AI and robotics can lead to a future of universal high income and eliminate poverty by creating an abundance of goods and services making human work optional. Elimination of poverty [more…]
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AI Think Therefore AI Am?
The ancient Greeks, guardians of philosophy and medicine, wrestled with a timeless tension: *Could we?* versus *Should we?* The Hippocratic oath embodied this restraint—harnessing knowledge and technique while pledging “first, do no harm.” Aristotle warned [more…]
Arts
From Tangible to Digital: The Shift from Physical to Virtual Media
In the past few decades, we’ve witnessed a profound transformation in how we create, share, and preserve our memories and communications. The digital revolution has reshaped the landscape of human expression, moving us from the [more…]
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Do You Still Believe Anything You Read?
Apologies in advance to Larry and his scribe WorthingGooner for pre-empting part of this coming Sunday’s ever popular and always entertaining Larry’s Diary, but something has cropped up and I think all G-P authors, commenters [more…]
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Digitising Old Cine Films
Having modernised and saved the old family photos and audio recordings for ‘posterity’ by converting them to digital format, attention turned to the family cine films, shot in the 1960s and early 1970s: 24 reels [more…]
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Digitising Old Audio Tapes
There were three tasks involved in modernising and preserving the family archive, the second of which was to digitise the audio recordings. Digitising the old photographs was covered in a previous article, while digitising the [more…]