http://www.teedeepee.com Tales of an accelerating future Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:34:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.teedeepee.com/2012/04/21/nexialism-and-the-future-of-education-part-i/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2012/04/21/nexialism-and-the-future-of-education-part-i/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:34:12 +0000 teedeepee http://www.teedeepee.com/blog/?p=338 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, … Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2012/04/21/nexialism-and-the-future-of-education-part-i/feed/ 0 http://www.teedeepee.com/2012/04/21/speech/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2012/04/21/speech/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:08:31 +0000 teedeepee http://www.teedeepee.com/?p=438 ]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2012/04/21/speech/feed/ 0 http://www.teedeepee.com/2012/04/20/all-hail-storm/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2012/04/20/all-hail-storm/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:52:16 +0000 teedeepee http://www.teedeepee.com/?p=430 It’s been a year since Tim Minchin’s excellent beat poem Storm was masterfully put into animation. If you’ve missed all the hype from twelve months ago, or if you feel like enjoying a refreshing trip down memory lane, spend the … Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2012/04/20/all-hail-storm/feed/ 0 http://www.teedeepee.com/2011/09/16/greenwich-your-time-is-up-not/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2011/09/16/greenwich-your-time-is-up-not/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:16:34 +0000 teedeepee http://www.teedeepee.com/?p=289 An article published by Saudi Arabia’s Arab News on the first day of Ramadan 2010 illustrates once again how simple, secular concepts that we take for granted can be challenged by political, religious or even commercial agendas. In summary: the … Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2011/09/16/greenwich-your-time-is-up-not/feed/ 2 http://www.teedeepee.com/2011/09/05/squeezing-the-tomato-the-pomodoro-technique/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2011/09/05/squeezing-the-tomato-the-pomodoro-technique/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:50:15 +0000 teedeepee http://www.teedeepee.com/2011/09/05/371/ After a unusually grueling consulting stint that left me feeling burnt out, I found myself going through a motivational lull. Procrastination crept in, and I soon felt subject to the diktat of the ticking clock. I had lost my ability … Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2011/09/05/squeezing-the-tomato-the-pomodoro-technique/feed/ 0 http://www.teedeepee.com/2011/02/12/a-divemasters-case-study/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2011/02/12/a-divemasters-case-study/#comments Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:52:42 +0000 teedeepee http://www.teedeepee.com/blog/?p=315 I was recently the Divemaster in charge of leading two certified divers (both Advanced Open Water level) on a wreck dive, and experienced an unpleasant situation that I thought was worth sharing for the benefit of others. Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2011/02/12/a-divemasters-case-study/feed/ 2 http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/05/15/ars-longa-vita-brevis/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/05/15/ars-longa-vita-brevis/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 08:55:28 +0000 teedeepee http://www.teedeepee.com/?p=216 Could the development of ars technica (the art of technology) be made to fit into a framework that would not only reflect the technological progress made by humanity so far, but also be reasonably accurate at predicting our future as a species? Of course, one could argue that anything can fit into a framework, provided you tweak the framework enough to reach whichever conclusion you aim for. But sophism aside, is there some predictability to be derived from the history of mankind's command of technology? Here are five proposed stages of technological development. Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/05/15/ars-longa-vita-brevis/feed/ 1 http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/04/08/transhumanism-and-evolution-the-end-of-randomness/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/04/08/transhumanism-and-evolution-the-end-of-randomness/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:28:16 +0000 teedeepee http://www.teedeepee.com/?p=176 Transhumanism will be more than a mere improvement of man through technology; it is going to bring an end to evolutionary randomness, the fundamental underlying principle which (coupled with natural selection) has driven the evolution of all organisms since the emergence of life on Earth (and quite possibly anywhere else in the Universe). Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/04/08/transhumanism-and-evolution-the-end-of-randomness/feed/ 0 http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/02/20/tactical-success-meet-strategic-failure/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/02/20/tactical-success-meet-strategic-failure/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:46:25 +0000 teedeepee http://www.teedeepee.com/?p=125 The January 19, 2010 assassination of Hamas' military wing commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel has turned into a remarkable PR opportunity for the local police. In just a few days, the investigative authorities of the UAE's glitziest emirate were able to piece together the 19-hour-long chain of events that led to the killing, resulting in this riveting 30' video that tells us a few things. Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2010/02/20/tactical-success-meet-strategic-failure/feed/ 2 http://www.teedeepee.com/2009/12/11/will-the-robots-make-fun-of-us/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2009/12/11/will-the-robots-make-fun-of-us/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:08:35 +0000 Toxic Max http://blog.teedeepee.com/?p=105 While we may be tempted to look at humans as merely an evolutionary link from good mammals to greater artificial intelligence, one question remains, what’s our place in the post-Singularity world? Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2009/12/11/will-the-robots-make-fun-of-us/feed/ 0