MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ray Kurzweil, Transcendent Man, Albert Allen Bartlett
WEEK 1-3 LECTURES
• “Unprecedented” quote
• Media ecology: living through media
• “space odyssey” film
o Move from primitive ways to modern technology
• Carl Sagan (astronomer)
o “The Pale Blue Dot”
• Important moments of social media:
o Social media activism
o Youtube
o Streaming
o More accessibility
o Soundtracks
• Documentary: Transcendent Man
o Idea of singularity human-machine society
▪ Future period where technological change will be so rapid
• Hybrid of bio/non-biological IQ
• You need to merge yourself with intelligent technology in
order to keep up
• ^Ignores ideas of inequalities + structural inferiorities put
onto ppl, affordability issues
o Predictions about the future
o Ray Kurzweil
▪ Artificial intelligence (AI)
o Exponential growths due to frequent developments, using the latest tech
to make new tech so that whole pave of technology accelerates
o GNR
▪ Genetic / Nano-tech. / Robotics
o “Artilect War”
▪ Artificial + intellect
▪ Artilect will feel superior over us
▪ 2 human-group war
• Al Bartlett
o Exponential growth
• Diegetic prototypes
o Film criticism
• Media ecology (Neil Postman)
o Media is a part of our environment
o It facilitates or impedes our chance of survival
• Lascaux Cave 1700 BCE
o “The Chinese horse”
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