Preface Ever since Vinge's innovation feedback loop idea was introduced to me nearly twenty years ago, I've always been very interested in searching for and understanding the damping mechanisms for it. I had a feeling that Vinge and especially Kurzweil have oversimplified. This was something that I suspected vaguely for quite some ...

Here is some shameless, unfounded speculation copied from my site, Farlops Industries, which is up and running again after a hiatus of 7 months: A week ago I read a short story by Tad Williams about the spontaneous emergence of sapience from the Internet. It wasn't really that good. Arthur Clarke did it many decades earlier and did it much ...

This is the first of what is to be small number of blog posts here. The reason they are going to be rare is because I have my own site with its own blog and, frankly I can only generate a tiny number of novel thoughts on any given day. Sorry, my site gets most of them. I am upgrading my site blog tool however, and my live site is currently ...