Human Beings and the Technology Singularity. Technology has come a long way. Some people think that in the future there will be a technological singularity. At this time human beings will basically merge with technology. It is imagined that there will be nano-technology this nanotechnology will make it so advances in medicine and computer will be possible. Some people say that the year of this technology singularity is 2029. That’s about 19 years away from today. I’ll be 49 years old. But people make predictions all the time. Weren’t we supposed to have high power laser beams and flying cars by now? What about space travel? It’s 2010, and we’re still trying to get humans on Mars. What makes 2029 special? Well, Raymond Kurzweil says that computer technology is different from advances in fields like physics. Kurzweil says that there will be exponential growth in the field of computers, especially in processing power. I guess there is something different from an advance in physics as opposed to an advance in computers. What is interesting is that by the year 2029 if things keep progressing toward the Technological Singularity, there may be a convergence with what people are talking about with the Zeitgeist and Venus Project movements. Ever want to store your mind in a computer when you go to bed? Stick around till 2029. Ever want to move objects with your mind? Watch the video below and see how monkeys do it. Check out the video below for more information about the Technological Singularity and about a new version of humanity.
January 28, 2010
Ode to the sheet of the wave
As I stand looking down at the past. I see a great wave approaching. It is a dark wave, something made of black and blues. It seems to grow within and without itself as if to speak with age old tones and simple harmonies. With an outstretched arm I attempt to feel the cold air. It is damp and crisp, yet humid. My hair is short but it collects spats of water cooling my hot skin. I try to pull away from the wave, as if to rip apart from the universe itself. But I am already overtaken by the black water. Thinking I would be swimming and sloshed upon the deluge, I am surprised to find that the wave has passed…only to fill the air with its sound. I look up and see the tail of the wave. It is like a great comet or serpent, splashing upon the sky with fervor and grace. As I close my hand and retract my arm, I unwittingly grab space and time and pull it like a sheet up toward my chest. Stars shine through the night sky in adoration. They know that something true and worthy has happened. For accidents of innocent fate are the key to impressing and arousing the curiosity and adoration of the heavens. So they watch. Time moves like a song, with ebbs and flow. The cold air is replaced by a warm wind. I can feel pockets of pressure like a topographic map shows elevation. They are explaining themselves to me. How arrogant was I…to expect that they existed like I do. To think that they had similar bodies or minds. “Let us teach you, let us watch you…” So I close my eyes, and feel the wind. It rushes past my fingers, and I sense intensity and expedience. It slows and whistles and I sense decay and eventual death. But as the emptiness of sound and touch weighs upon my consciousness, time begins to lose its grasp. I begin to question how long I have been under. I look to the stars and they seem to have moved. I look closer and they blink and shimmer, toying me for trying to directly scrutinize or understand them. “We are not here to help you.” I feel anger in my stomach and I arch my back to get a closer look in defiance, only to slip on the cliff that I was standing on. I fall to the rocky ground, painfully. But in that instant of pain I feel security. For I have felt something. In the absence of external sensation and anchors of reality, I had created my own beacon to cling to. So I laid there for a while laughing in a small way, a chuckle of sorts. Then as the wind began to flow over me again, clouds past by the stars making them pulse and blink. I took a relaxed breath through my nose and filled my chest with air. There was no escape. There was no reprieve. There was only the now. So since I had all the time in the world, I decided to stand up. Maybe I’ll walk in a straight line until the universe sends me back where I started. The wind gently helped me stand. And since I felt cold, I wrapped the sheet of the wave around my body like a cape. I felt proud. The wind filled the cloak of time and made my walk have something human, something special to it, that I couldn’t describe unless I was mad man trying to argue with the gods about purposefulness. So I went forward and kept my back toward the wind. And the stars blinked when I looked up and hid when I looked down. And we were silent companions in the night.
Tyler Stansfield Jaggers
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
1:33 AM
January 27, 2010
New AD – Device Repair
Use Device Repair for your Computer Repair Needs
We now have a new ad on the right sidebar for Device Repair. They are a great company and we hope here at overidon.com that you use them for all your computer repair needs. This is the first of many official overidon.com ads that are not automatically generated by Google Adsense. Overidon.com wants to start promoting businesses by using the sidebar space. As of right now there is tons of sidebar space for the main overidon.com homepage. So I’m excited to explore ads for companies that are good in real life. Let it be known that overidon.com is a business and so our ads are for the promotion of businesses. And we do get compensated for our ads. So if you click on an ad remember that it is an advertisement.
Great Computer building and service at Device Repair
Awesome Service at Device Repair
Great Computer building and service at Device Repair. Device Repair is a great company. Here’s where they are located:
2222 Michelson Drive
Suite 236
Irvine, CA 92612
Phone number: (949) 542-2233
I have had the pleasure of doing business with Device Repair for over 3 years and they have never let me down once. The company is a family run computer repair and building business that makes awesome mini and large PC’s. They also sell laptops as well. My first experience with Device Repair was 3 years ago when my brother needed a new computer. The owner of Device Repair went through the options we had in making the computer. We wanted to build one that was affordable and that would be high powered enough to play even the latest games and run software like Adobe Photoshop and MS Office. Well we decided on building one of Device Repair’s custom Turbo Device Mini PC. It was really cool and worked great. I was able to play cool games on it like Homeworld 2, Max Payne 2, Starcraft and also run Macromedia Flash as well as Photoshop with no problem. The computer worked great.
Then a year or so later, I decided to have a custom powerful tower-style computer built. This thing was solid computer power. It was XP Pro, with a sick sound card that I bought separately that is rack mounted, a good grafix card gigs of ram and solid processor speed. I loved this computer and the owner of Device Repair didn’t charge me an arm and a leg for it. I was able to edit video on it. I made music on it and I blogged on it very often for a blog that I used to work on. It was a really rad computer. Then one day I accidentally fried it by turning it off and on too much in one sitting and I fried its brain. Well I didn’t have the money to fix it so I just sat on the machine for a while. Then like a year later I brought the computer back to Device Repair and they gave me excellent customer service and they successfully repaired the computer and saved my data. I was really happy.
I recommend Device Repair to anyone who needs to have their computer fixed and/or is thinking of buying a new computer. They are great to talk to and are very friendly and their computers work very well. I like this company so much that I thinking of putting an ad for their website up on the overidon.com homepage.
-Tyler