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"3D printing has the potential to be pretty revolutionary. What’s your vision for the future? Right now we have a way of distributing and manufacturing products that is completely alien, compared to what people were doing 100 years back. We shop for things, often online, and we find the thing that most suits us. We order it. It was probably built very far away, and it ends up getting shipped to some other place and some other place and some other place before it comes to you. Well, it doesn’t have to be like that. You could just shop for something online, download a file, and print it out at home on your 3D printer." - Tom Himpe from Bookmarklet

I think it should be possible to 3D print houses with everything : structure, insulation, wiring, etc - Bud Blumenthal

"The series, which will be made available online beginning March 2010, will consist of 11 mini-features each 15 minutes in length, created by independent filmmakers exploring diverse visions of what life might look like in an America of the future." - Tom Himpe from Bookmarklet

and what about purefold itself ? - skylendar

"A model that replicates the functions of the human brain is feasible in 10 years according to neuroscientist Professor Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland. "I absolutely believe it is technically and biologically possible. The only uncertainty is financial. It is an extremely expensive project and not all is yet secured."" - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Creating a brain is one thing, understanding how it works and what intelligence is, is another - skylendar

I nominate Debian - Michael Bravo

Try either Mandriva or SUSE - skylendar

"The hive mind [concept] is the most important thing to me, because I love the idea of a civilization that can build all of that technology and then, at the same time, just have a massive population that was just drones that needed direction, and were absolutely incapable of building that stuff on their own. I found that to be a really interesting concept. Also, it sort of explains why they don't turn on the humans. Individually, they may be feeling oppressed, but they don't have it together enough to form a resistance and back one another. So I found that really interesting." - Graham Sergeant

Bees don't have personal purposes, they just obey, which is perfect for dictators, even animated with the best good will. - skylendar

The usual hot air from the so-called left wing french intellectuals. - skylendar

Close the thread... can't top Colbert :D - Graham Sergeant

"Here, anyway, is what increasingly seems to be the future: slick corporate logos flashing from prisons, hospitals, schools, detention centres, defence facilities, police stations and more, and a cut-price society pitched somewhere between Margaret Thatcher and Philip K Dick. Real-life dystopias, let us not forget, tend to arrive by stealth; whatever the political fashion, we need to start talking about all this again – and fast." - Graham Sergeant

Revel in your time - Graham Sergeant

Will Purefold be locking down fundamental elements in order to avoid pulling the rug out from under people who are building stories on those elements? - Graham Sergeant

PK Dick might have found augmented reality apps relevant to this effort. - Test Information Space

1. A massively popular contribution to top out FriendFeed and garner attention from the editorial team. - Graham Sergeant

Ok, I stay tuned. I expect things to be sorted out within 2-3 months - skylendar

Good question... it's all a bit nebulous. - Graham Sergeant

I was told that I need a twitter account, but what else ? - skylendar

Share this to Purefold Discussions and David Bausola/Zeroinfluencer for an answer from the horses mouth. - Graham Sergeant

We have essentially 2 options: either you stick to BR, which remains a pessimistic and grim movie, or you may choose something more optimistic, like Star Trek, with its spadefuls of clichés: lasers, teleportation and robots obeying "laws". It seems to me that plenty of people here would prefer the second solution, hence a possible poll in order to make sure. - skylendar

Are we more complex? In as much as we have a greater range simple chemical triggers for our social intelligence to emerge from. - Graham Sergeant

right. Nature is amoral. Evil is just a human spiritual determination. - skylendar

To us, the real job, i.e. finding out fresh and valuable ideas, and to them, the $$$$$ - skylendar

skylender, looking forward to your contributions. - zeroinfluencer

Among the artists who published in this magazine, I would quote Bilal, Mœbius, and I think the unavoidable Philippe Druillet. http://www.druillet.com/galerie... - skylendar

Even 37 years after its publication, the Lone Sloane's 6 journeys remains dazzling with its entrancing horror, its megalomania - skylendar

Law I: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm - Kol Tregaskes

What does that mean, skylender? Even my PARENTS were kids in the 60s - Slappy Line

we can't reckon the audience as a person with a unique and coherent mind. We, the audience, are rather a group of people with sometimes diametrically opposite tastes and options. So, you have to make a choice, and probably disappoint a large chunk of your audience. - skylendar

BR remains a grim, pessimistic and desperate movie; in one word, a tragedy, and I love it for that. Perhaps you still regard it as a reference, but some people, if not most, would prefer something more optimistic, more tech-oriented, like Star Trek. So, eventually, you may satisfy me or them, but not both of us. - skylendar

"The idea of a DIY electronic washing machine using recycling parts and Open source microcontroller was born in spring 2008 during an Open Source Hardware workshop for artists in Craslab Paris. We had to rethink the economical, sociological and technical concepts of washing clothes in a consciousness of sustainable development and respect of the natural and human environment. We had to rethink the implication of technology in simple daylife, through the millenary painful activity of washing clothes." - zeroinfluencer from Bookmarklet

The problem with open source is that you can maybe duplicate a program or an idea, it's immaterial, but not a piece of hardware. So, the open source policy, by nature, can't satisfy all our needs. The fancy for open source will show its limits: in our case, you cannot open source an actor, a cameraman, a script girl. - skylendar

Acting and Camera Operators are based upon a 'commons' being available - it's how any personas and skills are developed. Their output is not always so open as their work is generally owned via the traditional financing/distributor/exhibitor models. Most acting is piracy. - zeroinfluencer

We wanted to highlight a couple of very interesting posts by Drew Conway of Zero Intelligence Agents. While not simple, the programming language python offers significant returns upon investment. From a data acquisition standpoint, python has made what seemed impossible quite possible. As a side note, this code looks like our first Bommarito led Ann Arbor Python Club effort to download and process NBA Box Scores…. you know it is all about trying to win the fantasy league…! - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

No more than any other language, actually - skylendar

I wonder if the slowness of innovation is a stubborn need for each of us to avoid making stuff. Making stuff, lots of it, is no easy task. Then disseminating the ideas, the need, then distribution, the list goes on. Also known as enterprise, which historically has been a little overly focused on money only. The shift in focus to broader bottom line (social, environmental) will tip the scale. I am interested in how enterprise will be affected by it. Purefold, that is. - Mary Anne Davis

You should also consider that at the moment, and in a sizeable chunk of "foreseeable" future, there is no homogeneous global society. What an average person in USA or UK takes for granted, for millions is an unachievable future, and for other millions might not be even something they want to have. - Michael Bravo

right - skylendar

Ho yes - much of Neal Stephenson's recent stuff (for example) is historical but also working in a very science fictional way, because it's dealing with the impact of new technologies on a given society. In fact now you point it out 'The Terminator' is not the best example, because even though it's set in the present, it has the future in it. Come to think of it, uber SF movie 'Star Wars' is set (very deliberately) 'A long, long time ago...'! - Al Robertson

A powerful artificial intelligence won't spring from a sudden technological 'big bang', it's already evolving symbiotically along with us. I AM A MACHINE. So are you. Of all the hypotheses I've held during my 30-year career, this one in particular has been central to my research in robotics and artificial intelligence. I, you, our family, friends and dogs – we all are machines. We are really sophisticated machines made up of billions and billions of biomolecules that interact according to well-defined (though not completely known) rules, deriving from physics and chemistry. The biomolecular interactions taking place inside our heads give rise to our intellect, our feelings, our sense of self. Accepting this hypothesis opens up a remarkable possibility. If we really are machines and if – this is a big if – we learn the rules governing our brains, then in principle there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to replicate those rules in, say, silicon and steel. I believe such a creation... more... - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

A pessimist when things go awry - skylendar

Why not.... - skylendar

I am Marcus' charachter. Call me Daniel. - My Name is Daniel

5. - DGentry

Have a look over there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and see how the epistemological value of this test is weak. - skylendar

Long live the new Flesh? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - zeroinfluencer

How can you predict self-aware computers whereas we still don't know what awareness is ? - skylendar

I'm guessing green tech will be a big feature for Purefold. - Graham Sergeant

The Blade Runner world was utterly polluted, with huge chimneys throwing flames - skylendar

The inspiration for the Hades landscape we see in the opening shot of Blade Runner comes from the Teeside steel plant: http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees... It's a reference to our world and as we look to redress the balance of industry and nature, will Purefold reflect this? - Graham Sergeant

I watched your video, and you were essentially talking about purefold as a business model, not a word about the spirit of blade runner. If you are unable to understand that, you will disappoint your audience and your "product" will be driven to the purgatory of failure - skylendar

Hey Skylender. You're right, the talk was based upon the business model - which is based upon the theme of the movie (what does it mean to be human) and how it relates to the deep human need to sharing - which we do through network communications. The movie gives many insights into what the future could be, coupled with it's unique aesthetic mix. Sorry we didn't labor the presentation... more... - zeroinfluencer

In the film, most characters, Deckard, Batty, Zhora, were cold-blooded killers, not whining poor little things. They weren't supposed to feel empathy. - skylendar

Carl Rogers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...: Nineteen Propositions His theory (as of 1951) was based on nineteen propositions[6]: 1. All individuals (organisms) exist in a continually changing world of experience (phenomenal field) of which they are the centre. 2. The organism reacts to the field as it is experienced and perceived. This perceptual field is "reality" for the individual. 3. The organism reacts as an organized whole to this phenomenal field. 4. A portion of the total perceptual field gradually becomes differentiated as the self. 5. As a result of interaction with the environment, and particularly as a result of evaluational interaction with others, the structure of the self is formed - an organised, fluid but consistent conceptual pattern of perceptions of characteristics and relationships of the "I" or the "me", together with values attached to these concepts.... - Marcus Brown

The Fully Functioning Person Optimal development, as referred to in proposition 14, results in a certain process rather than static state. He describes this as the good life where the organism continually aims to fulfill their full potential. He listed characteristics of a fully functioning person (Rogers 1961[9]): 1. A growing openness to experience – they move away from defensiveness... more... - Marcus Brown

I hate the word "functionning person" when talking about a human being. A human lives, a machine is functionning. There is something totalitarian in that kind of explanations - skylendar

* The phenomenal world does not exist; it is a hypostasis of the information processed by the Mind. * We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing. * The changing information which we experience as world is an unfolding narrative. It tells about the death of a woman. This woman, who died long ago, was one of the primordial twins. She was half of the divine syzygy. The purpose of the narrative is the recollection of her and of her death. The Mind does not wish to forget her. Thus the ratiocination of the Brain consists of a... more... - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

The belief that the world is a creation of our mind - skylendar

I'd do it but I have no idea about Python. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

How is the testing going? - Kol Tregaskes