is beauty itself

that they were waking there. All along the new world naked,

cold, familiar wind

Human    Computer
 

TWO

What seas what shores what granite islands towards my timbers

And wood thrush calling through the fog

My daughter

Human    Computer

THREE

Men with picked voices chant the names

of cities in a huge gallery: promises

that pull through descending stairways

to a deep rumbling

HumanComputer

FOUR

I am lonely, lonely.

I slap an answer myself

she hides deep within her

yet plays --

Milkless

HumanComputer

FIVE

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;

The worlds revolve like ancient women

Gathering fuel in vacant lots.

HumanComputer

SIX

is a steady burning

the road the battle's fury--

clouds and ash and waning

sending out

young people

HumanComputer

SEVEN

"Interesting book?"

she sits

dancing by the electric typewriter,

bloodless revolution of meats

strings of use,

Politics, cautious, and the fact

she is the fact

she is calling them all--

HumanComputer

EIGHT

All along the road the reddish

purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy

stuff of bushes and small trees

with dead, brown leaves under them

leafless vines

HumanComputer
 
 
 

 
 

Poem	Author	Correct	Incorrect
One	Computer	15	12
Two	T. S. Eliot	15	12
Three	W. C. Williams	14	13
Four	Computer	16	11
Five	T. S. Eliot	14	13
Six	Computer	17	10
Seven	Computer	12	15
Eight	W. C. Williams	15	12
		118 (55%)	98

 
 
 
 

True Author	Said  "Computer"	Said  "Human"
Computer	60	48
Human	53	65

 

Ubiquitous Computing

Ubiquitous computing is the method of enhancing computer use by making many computers available throughout the physical environment, but making them effectively invisible to the user.

Privacy

Automation

Education

Impact on Children

Information as Power

Raymond Kurzweil, a National Medal of Technology recipient, has always wanted the world to know about the woman that lurks within him. Now he's using computers to show off that persona, a 25-year-old rock star named Ramona.

Tune in as Farhad Manjoo interviews Ray/Ramona for Wired News Radio.

http://www.wired.com/news/radio/0,1665,42031,00.html

http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?m=9 (Ramona)

Chapter 1: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kurzweil-machines.html
 
 

A $1,000 personal computer : trillion calculations per second

Computers embedded in clothes and jewelry

Most routine business transactions take place between human and a virtual personality.
 
 

$1,000 computing device : Equal to Computational ability of the human brain.

Computers are now largely invisible and embedded everywhere.

Three-dimensional virtual-reality displays.

Most interactions with computers is through gestures and natural-language spoken communication.

Realistic, all-encompassing visual, auditory, and tactile environments enable people to do virtually anything with anybody, regardless of physical proximity.

People begin to have relationships with automated personalities as companions, teachers, caretakers and lovers.
 
 

A $1,000 unit of computation: computing capacity of 1,000 human brains.

Direct neural pathways for connection to human brain.

Neural implants enhance visual and auditory perception, memory and reasoning.

Legal rights of computers?

Machines claim to be conscious.
 
 

Merger of human thinking and machine intelligence.

No clear distinction between humans and computers.

Most conscious entities do not have a permanent physical presence.

Machine-based intelligences derived from models of the human brain claim to be human.

Software-based humans vastly exceed native neuron-cell-based humans.
 
 
 
 
 

Paul Strathern
Turing and The Computer