Random Musings
I used to be a so-called political blogger having covered the topic for some ten years. Due to my distaste for what the political climate in Canada had become I abandoned writing about the Canadian political scene and shut down my political blog turning my attention to other matters of interest. It's unfortunate that my first entry under the ... Read More »
Matthew Brown is a talented young artist who creates short videos. Not ordinary short videos mind you but pieces of art that tell a story. Nearly a year ago he visited the Holocaust Museum in Miami Beach, which is home to a series of sculptures by Kenneth Treister, and started filming. The result is a short film called SHOAH. To describe the video ... Read More »
We've all seen the movies and the television shows which portray machines, most notably computers, as sentient beings. Whether they are benign entities like Star Trek's Data or much more malevolent like the Terminator, they have become common place throughout science fiction. But is the possibility of creating a sentient computer really that ... Read More »
Is it possible for one to peer into the future? If so, what does that mean? Is the future set or does one merely see a possible future? Scientists in Edinburgh have been intrigued by a black box, or a random event generator, that seemingly has an uncanny ability to foresee future events. The machine apparently sensed the September 11 attacks on ... Read More »