School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) is a hybrid of school, artist residency and research group where students develop a deep curiosity of what it means to work poetically in computational media. SFPC began as a school run by artists for artists. In the past we have held a combinations of two-week and ten-week intensive sessions.
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What is the School for Poetic Computation?
IoT
Minds + Machines: Insights from John Flannery on GE’s Digital Transformation
Everything you need to know about the industrial internet of things: here
C40 & Siemens │walking the talk for sustainable cities
Sieman's Sustainable Cities: here
System of Systems
IBM's Smarter Planet: here
All mentioned in "Zero Marginal Cost Society" (pg 17), by Jeremy Rifkin.
Aging / Numbers / Biometrics
TEDxSF - Joe Betts-Lacroix - Stayin' Alive: Don't Go Gentle into that Good Night
The Sens foundation:
Mission: The Foundation catalyses progress toward a comprehensive panel of rejuvenation biotechnologies through its growing global networks and collaborations, and through key research projects, executed in its own Research Center and numerous affiliated universities, research organizations and other centers of excellence.
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VIUM:
Vium is a translational medicine company focused on improving the success of drug development. Through the creation of more precise and reproducible disease models, Vium’s digital platform provides physiological biomarkers that enable better decisions on which compounds should be advanced to the clinic.
Vium’s Digital Vivarium™ and Vium Cloud is the gold-standard in vivo platform combining computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning and sensor technology to non-invasively collect and derive insights from digital biomarkers. The Vium platform continuously captures physiological metrics and behaviors non-invasively, providing more sensitive and accurate data collection, leading to more replicable studies. By providing researchers with these continuous, rich data sets, the platform enables them to identify which digital biomarkers, or combinations of biomarkers, are the strongest indicators of disease.
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The Quantified Self - Know thyself through numbers
Gary Wolf: The quantified self
Autoconhecimento através dos números.
Aqui.
God Google / Mapping the Human Body
Google Attempts to Map Human Body
"Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.
Called Baseline Study, the project will collect anonymous genetic and molecular information from 175 people—and later thousands more—to create what the company hopes will be the fullest picture of what a healthy human being should be." Here.
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Experiments in Musical Intelligence
Tech Closeup: Music Professor
Compor música 'ao estilo de', e os especialistas não conseguem detectar que a música foi composta por um computador. Aqui.
O valor humano
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| Ex Machina, de Alex Garland |
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
Egocasting
“egocasting” — a world where we exercise an unparalleled degree of control over what we watch and what we hear.
"By giving us the illusion of perfect control, these technologies risk
making us incapable of ever being surprised. They encourage not the
cultivation of taste, but the numbing repetition of fetish. And they
contribute to what might be called “egocasting,” the thoroughly
personalized and extremely narrow pursuit of one’s personal taste. In
thrall to our own little technologically constructed worlds, we are,
ironically, finding it increasingly difficult to appreciate genuine
individuality."
"The more control we can exercise over what we see and hear, the less prepared we are to be surprised."
"We are turning into a nation of instant but uninformed critics and we
are developing a keen impatience for what art demands of us."
"What we don’t seem to realize is that ritual thoroughly personalized is
no longer religion or art. It is fetish. And unlike religion and art,
which encourage us to transcend our own experience, fetish urges us to
return obsessively to the sounds and images of an arrested stage of
development."
Mais, aqui.
6 Futuristas Falam Como Será a Próxima Década
Mas, que novos cenários estão previstos?
O Futuro das Coisas buscou respostas em seis dos mais renomados futuristas da atualidade – e eles nos deram algumas previsões interessantes.
Aqui.
The Global Fururist
Extreme Future
Freedom does not exist. It's either determinism or randomness.
The Rise of the Data Religion
"The word 'freedom' simply has no meaning in the life sciences of today."
"If an organism is just a collection of algorithms, and these algorithms are not free in any sense, this means that, at least potentially, an external system, an external entity, can understand me perfectly. It just needs to understand all the algorithms that come together to build this machine, this structure."
"Feelings are just biochemical algorithms calculating, either of two things: probabilities of survival and probabilities of reproduction. That's it."
"Sexual feelings are biochemical algorithms."
"The algorithms of your feelings have succeeded, for millions of years, to pass the most rigorous tests of natural selection."
"Liberalism is listening to your feelings. Going with your heart. It was a practical guidance. It was not just a theory. Now, we move to the next stage, where people say, 'don't listen to your feelings, what do they know?' Listen to Google, listen to Amazon or to Facebook or whatever. They understand how you feel, better than you know how you feel, because they have much more information and they have much better algorithms than what natural selection gave you. They have information, not only about your emails and your books and so forth."
"Does life really mean nothing more than just information processing? What about consciousness?"
"Maybe the life sciences have got it wrong. Maybe the humans and other
animals are not reducible to algorithms. however, in historical terms
it's not as important as you might think, because a religion or ideology does not have to be correct in what it says, in order to take over the world. We have many cases, previously in history, where religions and ideologies, which said, what we think today, to be completely erroneous things about the world, nevertheless managed to take it over. In scientific terms the story, for example, that Christianity tells about the world [...] it's not true. It's simply not true. At least according to science. But this did not prevent Christianity from taking over most of the world. So you don't need the truth to take over the world. Similarly with these new data religions, maybe, they're based on a misunderstanding of life, but this will not necessarily prevent them from taking over the world."
"For me, the most beautiful tension and connection is between biology and computer science. Very often, when people think about the ideas I raised in the last part of the lecture, they give all the importance to the advances in computer science, to our ability to create better and better algorithms and computer programs. But in my eyes the real revolution is actually from the life sciences. The really big revolution is when the life sciences are telling us that animals are basically biochemical algorithms. If they didn't tell us this, then you can have all the advances you want in computer science, it won't impinge on humanity. You will still have humans which is something completely different and all the advances in robotics and computers... ok, we'll have better computers, we'll have better robots, but it won't really make much of a difference to us. When it becomes really amazing and really frightening is, that once you realize (and this is a contribution of the life sciences) that humans actually work in the same way, then you can make the connections and this is the really frightening stuff. This is also why I think, more and more companies like Google, that started simply in the computer business, are moving more and more to the biotechnology business, and then the two industries are merging into one. The most fundamental idea in this respect comes from the life sciences, which says: organisms are algorithms. This is the most important insight of our age, and also the most important question, because we don't have any proof of it. Currently it's just dogma. We don't have any explanation of how any kind of algorithm can create subjective experiences. Indeed in the field of computers, we're not even close to creating subjective experiences in computers. It's just the dogma, the people say: yes, it's the same. To give another historical reference, back in the 19th Century, when they tried to understand humans and the human mind and the human soul or whatever you like to call it, one of the main theories was that humans were not algorithms, humans were steam engines. This is the basic metaphor that standed (?) the basis of Freudian psychology. Humans usually tried to explain themselves in terms of the most sophisticated technology of the day. In 1900 the most sophisticated machine, the most sophisticated technology which was the basis for all economy, was the steam engine. Even today, when we want to unload our angst, we pick up the telephone and we release some steam. The idea is that the human being is built like a steam engine, it has all these pressures inside, and if you block it here it goes there. And much of Freudian psychology is built on this. [...] Now we say human beings are not like steam engines, they are like computers. But at present, at least, this is just a dogma. We don't have the hard facts to actually prove it."
Na fase das perguntas e respostas, é muito interessante a reflexão que YH faz acerca de quando se terá iniciado o patriarcado [+/- ao minuto 1:00:00]. Apesar de fisicamente inferiores aos homens, as mulheres sempre tiveram melhores competências sociais. Não se compreende, então, por que razão o patriarcado se impôs. Isto fez-me lembrar uma das histórias do livro SUM, de David Eagleman, acerca de uma deusa, tão compassiva, tão compassiva, que não se conseguia decidir sobre quem enviar para o inferno.
E a propósito de questões levantadas na parte final das Q&A, lembrei-me desta palestra.
A life worth listening to
Sobre Dame 'Steve' Shirley
"Who would have guessed that the programming of the black box flight
recorder for the supersonic Concord was done by a bunch of women working
in our homes?"
