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Tools
We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. — Marshall McLuhan
Robert Mundinger
Oct 9, 2017
Encoding
Encoding
According to the dictionary, code is a system of rules to convert information — such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture — into…
Robert Mundinger
Oct 9, 2017
Information
Information
Everything in a computer is made up of 1s and 0s. A picture of your beautiful baby is just bunch of 1s and 0s. Your child is just a number…
Robert Mundinger
Oct 9, 2017
Communication
Communication
Communication — “a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior”
Robert Mundinger
Oct 9, 2017
Permanence
Permanence
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living — Cicero
Robert Mundinger
Oct 9, 2017
Automation
Automation
The broad promise of AI is to liberate people from repetitive mental tasks the same way the industrial revolution liberated people from…
Robert Mundinger
Oct 9, 2017
Logic
Logic
I think, therefore I am. — Rene Descartes
Robert Mundinger
Oct 22, 2017
Replication
Replication
The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed. — William Gibson
Robert Mundinger
Oct 22, 2017
Retrieval
Retrieval
We are this world’s memory. Without us, men would be little better than dogs. Don’t remember any meal but the last, can’t see forward to…
Robert Mundinger
Oct 22, 2017
Abstraction
Abstraction
“I don’t care how you do it, just do it”
Robert Mundinger
Oct 22, 2017
Flexibility
Flexibility
Ada explored four concepts that would have historical resonance a century later when the computer was finally born. The first was that of a…
Robert Mundinger
Oct 22, 2017
Algorithms
Algorithms
If you want to solve a puzzle and you dump the pieces out on a table, where do you start? You probably break it down into steps— look for…
Robert Mundinger
Oct 22, 2017
Economics
Economics
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it” — Thomas Sowell
Robert Mundinger
Jan 31, 2018
Interaction
Interaction
As amazing as computers are, they still rely on humans to use them. This gives them some severe limitations 😏
Robert Mundinger
Jan 31, 2018
Perception
Perception
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” — William Blake
Robert Mundinger
Jan 31, 2018
Secrets
Secrets
It has been said that the First World War was the chemists’ war, because mustard gas and chlorine were employed for the first time, and…
Robert Mundinger
Feb 1, 2018
Collaboration
Collaboration
Before the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, humanity spoke one language. They aspired to reach the level of God and began building a…
Robert Mundinger
Feb 1, 2018
Physics
Physics
“It was becoming increasingly difficult to separate the atomic age from the information age”
Robert Mundinger
Feb 2, 2018
Biology
Biology
“Life, uh…finds a way” — Malcolm, Jurassic Park
Robert Mundinger
Feb 1, 2018
Trust
Trust
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers“— Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire
Robert Mundinger
Feb 16, 2018
Uncertainty
Uncertainty
The further we get with computing — algorithms, perception, data collection - the harder the problems we are trying to solve and the less…
Robert Mundinger
Feb 16, 2018
Data
Data
By 2020, there will be 5,200 GB of data for every person on Earth. There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day. More data was…
Robert Mundinger
Feb 26, 2018
Intelligence
Intelligence
“Intelligence has been decoupled from consciousness“— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus, 2015
Robert Mundinger
Feb 26, 2018
Singularity
Singularity
“The accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, give the appearance of approaching some essential…
Robert Mundinger
Mar 2, 2018
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