Monday, December 16, 2019

Mr. Robot flips reality...

https://tv.avclub.com/just-before-the-series-finale-mr-robot-flips-reality-1840447737
By the ending of this episode it's really is a flip of perceptions, perspectives and realities.

"In his penultimate installment, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail officially turned up the radio and dialed things up to an entirely unexpected level: a full-scale parallel universe, just as Whiterose (BD Wong) always promised.

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/usa-network/284983/mr-robot-season-4-episode-11-review-exit
Is it a doppelganger kind of life or a digital copy of a copy in a quantum cosmic simulation?
https://www.tvfanatic.com/2019/11/join-tv-fanatic-to-give-thanks-for-all-things-television

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mr._Robot_episodes#Season_4_(2019)

It can be quite bewildering to see a doppelganger of yourself or someone that you know. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger#Examples_in_fiction

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see..."
https://genius.com/Queen-bohemian-rhapsody-lyrics

{"Heautoscopy is a term used in psychiatry and neurology for the reduplicative hallucination of "seeing one's own body at a distance".}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoscopy#Related_disorders

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150821-the-dangerous-consequences-of-seeing-your-doppelganger

https://www.today.com/popculture/famous-doppelgangers-celebrity-pairs-we-cant-tell-apart
DNA patterns can produce a striking similar likeness of a person from another time and sometimes within a contemporary context.
https://twinstrangers.net

Not clones, but...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/the-website-that-matches-you-to-your-doppelganger-a6714141.html
(boredpanda.com)
https://www.boredpanda.com/celebrity-look-alike-doppelganger
When people look very similar to each other in the same time or epoch, several people might become confused, especially when they realize that they aren't just seeing a mask or an impression.

https://www.today.com/popculture/famous-doppelgangers-celebrity-pairs-we-cant-tell-apart , 
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+doppelganger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_(The_Matrix) ,
https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/The_Twins ,
https://whatisthematrix.fandom.com/wiki/Twins

https://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html
{"The idea that the universe is itself a computer—or, more suggestively, that the computer is the universe—extends back almost to the dawn of the information age. The German computer scientist Konrad Zuse was the first to suggest that the universe is being computed on a universal computer in Rechnender Raum, which was first published in 1969 [PDF link to English translation]. It was an idea ahead of its time. At the WSF event, Jürgen Schmidhuber, a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Lugano in Switzerland (and intellectual descendant of Zuse’s) noted that after the publication of Rechender Raum, everyone thought that Zuse—who had already achieved legendary status in the computer science community for constructing one of the world’s first programmable computers, the Z1—had gone and lost his mind.
Yet the idea lived on, most notably in the work of Edward Fredkin, a polymath computer scientist who was also present on the panel. He was one of the three scientists profiled by Robert Wright in his book Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information; the chapter on Fredkin and his ideas was excerpted in the Atlantic Monthly as "Did the Universe Just Happen?"
It took the legendary physicist John A. Wheeler to really bring the idea to prominence within the physics community. He coined the pithy summation it from bit, and laid out a research program to investigate the connection in his 1989 essay "Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links."}
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-digital-cosmos-a-brief-reading-list


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot#Influences

https://www.esmailcorp.com , https://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot ,

https://www.esmailcorp.com/upcoming , https://www.esmailcorp.com/projects ,

https://www.instagram.com/esmailcorp/?hl=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot#Production


https://www.queensongs.info/song-analysis/songwriting-analyses/modern-era-queen/the-works/machines-or-back-to-humans
Every robot is a machine but every machine isn't a robot, at least not yet.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Works_(Queen_album)#Side_two
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Kills_(Freddie_Mercury_song)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody_(film) ,
http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/bohemian-rhapsody
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(band)#Bohemian_Rhapsody
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World_(album)

QUEEN and Mr. Robot, it just had to be, some day...

Sunday, November 03, 2019

Neo and The MATRIX Nightclub Rabbit-hole of Synchronicity

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjoad6gcRzs

So when Neo sees the woman with a White_Rabbit tattoo, he decides to go to the nightclub. 


Trinity:...

I was looking for an answer. It’s the question that drives us. It’s the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.

Neo: What is the Matrix? http://quotegeek.com/quotes-from-movies/the-matrix/1272


Carrie-Anne Moss was a cast member of the short-lived television show Matrix (1993).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/trivia?item=tr0791439


Gillian Anderson turned down the role of Trinity. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/trivia?item=tr1852400

David Duchovny turned down the role of Neo in order to star in The X Files (1998). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/trivia?item=tr2169955


"The club was open for nearly four decades as a late-night 4 a.m. bar where goths, punkers, and more gathered to escape the sports bar crowd. The Wachowskis siblings, the filmmakers behind The Matrix, supposedly named Keanu Reeves’ character from that movie after the venue."  https://chicago.eater.com/2017/7/31/16070272/neo-nightclub-documentary-trailer-chicago-2530-last-call

"Neo was the oldest[2] or one of the oldest[3] running nightclubs in Chicago and was a hangout and venue for a variety of musicians and artists, including David BowieIggy PopDavid Byrnethe ClashSiouxsie and the Banshees, and U2."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(nightclub)

At the start of the 1990s, U2 went to record a new BIG tech themed album in Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achtung_Baby#Berlin_sessions A Matrix club opened in Berlin but it was a few years after the recordings at Hansa_Tonstudio

"Matrix is a club in Berlin which opened in 1996."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(club)

Of course there was another Matrix club and that one opened a few decades before the first Matrix movie. 

"Filming began in March 1998 and wrapped in August 1998..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix#Filming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(club)#Emergence_of_Jefferson_Airplane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_(song) This fantastic song was written not that long after the opening of The_Matrix_(club) in the mid 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_(song)#Lyrics_and_composition , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0


Jefferson Airplane’s debut show was on August 13, 1965 at the Matrix nightclub in San Francisco, then went on with several successful tours including performances at the Berkeley Folk Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, and Altamont.

They recorded hit singles such as “White Rabbit,” “Volunteers,” “Embryonic Journey” and “Somebody to Love” and smash albums such as “Volunteers,” “Surrealistic Pillow,” “Bark” and “Takes Off.” https://jeffersonairplane.com , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aeWicwy7fA , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLz0w4phXk


https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland


https://www.wired.com/story/matrix-red-pill-vs-blue-pill , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUY2kJE0AZE , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

"When The Matrix closed, a nearby bar, Pierce Street Annex, leased the space and moved in, remodeling once again, and turned it into a nightclub with only a DJ and no live music. After the Pierce Street Annex closed, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom's company, PlumpJack Group, took over in 2000 and renamed the space The MatrixFillmore. Live music was incorporated into the venue during the first few years; however, this layout was not a viable venue for live music and the program was dropped. The MatrixFillmore was one of the first ultra lounges in San Francisco.[9] In 2017, the club name was changed back to The Matrix, described as a casual neighborhood bar with DJs and dancing on weekends.[1] In 2019, The Matrix was remodeled and renamed the White Rabbit." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(club)#End_of_The_Matrix , 

https://sf.eater.com/2018/8/8/17662346/white-rabbit-matrix-3138-fillmore-opening-cocktail-bar 


https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/how-to-build-the-matrix by Riz Virk

"2019 marks the 20th anniversary of what is arguably one of the best Science fiction movies ever made - The Matrix. It popularized an ancient idea that the world we live in may not be real. In other words, our world is just an illusion, a simulation -- a video game. So, Are we really living in a video game? 

Game industry veteran Rizwan (Riz) Virk believes this could be true." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHlfe2HE_gQ


The Simulation Hypothesis: Exploring The Real with Riz Virk https://www.zenentrepreneur.com Episode 61 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Author/Entrepreneur Riz Virk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pH1jg-BohM


(So) Are You In A Simulation?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d9i_0Ty7Cg 

Is Reality Realhttps://www.fusionanomaly.net/simulationtheory.html The Simulation Argument  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlTKTTt47WE









Thursday, August 29, 2019

TVs, Tech and Marketing

https://gizmodo.com/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-most-obnoxious-thing-1837668107

Why can't a TV already have a good level of performance built in? A lot of times they do but every tech product is updated at least every year, so as to keep up the demand for the latest & greatest features.

If a TV, computer or smartphone is built well enough, it should be good for several years.

Unfortunately, planned_obsolescence is a clever way to get people to keep buying the same products more than they might otherwise, have to.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160612-heres-the-truth-about-the-planned-obsolescence-of-tech
While it helps to increase corporate profits, it causes people to spend more than they need to.
https://gizmodo.com/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-most-obnoxious-thing-1837668107
In whats supposedly a growing environmentally aware world, it would make more sense for products to last as long as possible.
https://www.consumersinternational.org/news-resources/blog/posts/built-to-fail-is-planned-obsolescence-really-happening

People will always want to get a new phone, computer, TV, or car, but not necessarily every year.

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Have some RESEARCHERS been urged to stop investigating whether our universe is a simulation, or a cosmic creation?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1165219/simulation-theory-matrix-are-we-in-a-simulation-nick-bostrom-universe-news

The world has been a confusing and dangerous place for a long time. Apparently, some people still want the majority of the population to not be that interested in questioning their existence and this world. 

However, various people have been questioning, The Nature Of Reality (TNOR) since ancient times.
https://tocuz.com/czechrepublic/can-the-simulation-hypothesis-destroy-the-entire-universe 
Simply because they have a genuine curiosity to explore reality.

Legends and myths help people to think about larger aspects of existence and reality. Why do most cultures and civilizations since ancient times have a sense of this world as being part of some cosmic constructed reality? 
https://retellingthetales.com/myths-legends-fables-and-fairy-tales

The MATRIX movies, etc., are an extension of the Cyberpunk world, universe and multiverse.
https://www.neondystopia.com/what-is-cyberpunk


"2019 marks the 20th anniversary of what is arguably one of the best Science fiction movies ever made - The Matrix. It popularized an ancient idea that the world we live in may not be real. In other words, our world is just an illusion, a simulation -- a video game. So, Are we really living in a video game? Game industry veteran Rizwan (Riz) Virk believes this could be true."



The+Simulation+Hypothesis (TSH) or Simulation+Theory is quite a fascinating concept to ponder. 




Friday, June 14, 2019

5 TIMES KEANU REEVES HAS APPEARED IN GAMES

"Keanu Reeves striding onto the stage at Microsoft’s press conference to announce his starring role in Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the biggest moments of E3 2019.
But this is far from the first time that his visage has appeared in a video game. From The Matrix to John Wick and beyond, here are 5 occasions where Keanu Reeves has appeared to make amazing video games even more amazing." https://news.game.co.uk/e3-2019-keanu-reeves-in-video-games 
It's kind of tough to be everywhere so perhaps the next best thing is to have a CG version or digital likeness rousting about the Internet and data-streams in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek-5vIz_gDw 

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Rockstar's Game Design is Outdated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvJPKOLDSos

Why some people will always like a simpler or retro look to a game, most people can't wait until there is total photo-realistic image quality.

Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Beijing-will-start-rating-its-residents-by-their-behaviour-by-2021

https://www.alphr.com/the-future/1010214/beijing-will-start-rating-its-residents-by-their-behaviour-by-2021

Train people to be obedient like circus animals. WTF? Train people to be like lab mice in a maze. WTF? Train people to be like prisoners of war in their own country. WTF? Sure, law and order has to be maintained in a very BIG country with over 1.4 billion people, but this tech isn't about making people freer to express them selves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#Urbanization

"What is the MATRIX? Control."

https://www.alphr.com/the-future-of-people


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2018/09/technocracy.html

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Black Mirror Dictatorship - Is It Upon Us? (Russell Brand)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qK4fXWnhw

https://www.fastcompany.com/40512450/black-mirror-is-obsessed-with-digital-hell-because-we-are-living-in-it

http://blog.umd.edu/blackmirrorreflections/2017/12/16/black-mirror-serves-as-a-warning-for-the-future

https://www.businessinsider.com/black-mirror-predictions-reality-2016-10

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13440972/black-mirror-season-3-episode-6-hated-in-the-nation-recap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror#Episodes

Are humans to just end up like lab mice in some global A.I. maze?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5HTLkmWwfM

The old Pruitt_Igoe housing maze.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Pruitt-igoeUSGS02.jpg
Why are people expected to live like mice in a maze?



https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Minha_Casa%2C_Minha_Vida_em_Eun%C3%A1polis_%28Bahia%29.jpg


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Kin_Ming_Estate.jpg

Saturday, September 08, 2018

We're Probably Living in a Simulation, Elon Musk Says

{"I think most likely — this is just about probability — there are many, many simulations," he added. "You might as well call them reality, or you could call them multiverse."
The "substrate" on which these simulations are running, whatever it may be, is probably quite boring, at least compared to the simulations themselves, Musk further told Rogan.
"Why would you make a simulation that's boring? You'd make a simulation that's way more interesting than base reality," Musk said, citing the video games and movies that humanity makes, which are "distillation[s] of what's interesting about life."} https://www.space.com/41749-elon-musk-living-in-simulation-rogan-podcast.html

Various religions imply that there was a General Original Designer of the cosmos. The scientific approach is about not being limited by any religious or philosophical perspective. So how and why do various human cultures have the concept of this world being part of a cosmic construct?

{"Humanity might never be able to prove with certainty whether the universe is simulated, Chalmers said.
"There's certainly not going to be conclusive experimental proof that we're not in a simulation," he said near the start of the debate. "Any evidence we could ever get would be simulated!"} https://www.space.com/32543-universe-a-simulation-asimov-debate.html
https://www.amazon.com/Max-Tegmark/e/B00E8W57TU/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

VR R&D will only continue to reveal that this world and space-time is part of some type of an interactive recording and projection of reality.

https://www.simulation-argument.com 


Saturday, September 01, 2018

Technocracy...

https://www.technocracy.news/trilateral-commission-converted-china-technocracy
It is said that every country has to maintain a certain level of order and control but hybrid Communist China has pushed it to the max.

https://www.groundzeromedia.org/8-31-18-%E9%96%93%E8%AB%9C-cyber-chinese-laundry
GZ hits it out of the park again.
https://soundcloud.com/groundzeromedia/cyber-chinese-laundry-august-31-2018

https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/in-xinjiang-chinas-neo-totalitarian-turn-is-already-a-reality/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-dazzling-spectacle-of-chinas-totalitarianism/2017/10/17/364bf8e4-b296-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.4dde424636ca
A total digital surveillance state, indeed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/02/21/china-internet/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.dcd871ae0ac6

https://www.technocracy.news/chinas-technocrats-are-using-dispassionate-ai-to-build-foreign-policy

https://www.technocracy.news/chinas-smart-city-plan-boost-surveillance
The smart city concept has its advantages but it could make some people feel like mice in a maze.
https://www.technocracy.news/investors-placing-huge-bets-on-chinas-facial-recognition-startups

https://www.technocracy.news/china-names-technocrat-xu-lin-as-new-international-propaganda-chief

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2117169/out-technocrats-chinas-new-breed-politicians

https://www.technocracy.news/?s=china

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Democracy_(song) ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwjCvu4dYWY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Democracy#Background ,
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/chinese-democracy-255370 ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Democracy_Tour

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/slash-chinese-democracy-songs


Men Without Hats - Living In China (Demo Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVEEVgh2a9Q

Men Without Hats - Living In China (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MNGq5_6lcE

https://www.discogs.com/Men-Without-Hats-Living-In-China/release/389721 ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fSxT2Gc2s8 ,
https://genius.com/Men-without-hats-living-in-china-lyrics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#Democratization Of course Taiwan wants to be as free as possible from the control of mainland China.


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2018/08/can-china-build-us145-million.html

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Take Back Your Power from the smart meter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=377&v=8ZTiT9ZSg3Q

Published on Aug 23, 2018


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If this tech can really help to improve power efficiency, that's great. However, several people have concerns about various side effects & problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter#Opposition_and_concerns

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Smart Meters are worse than you think


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"I learned the hard way what's happening with smart meters in Europe. The same type of smart meter they're using here in France has already been deployed in many EU countries. Mostly, we hear only about the negative health effects of wireless smart meters, but the ones here only send data back over the power lines. In short, with a smart meter, you may end up with less juice to power stuff, and more frequent main breaker trips as people exceed their (now reduced) capacity."

Can China build a US$145 million superconducting computer that will change the world?

"Computers are power-hungry, and increasingly so. According to an estimate by the Semiconductor Industry Association, they will need more electricity than the world can generate by 2040, unless the way they are designed is dramatically improved.
The superconducting computer is one of the most radical advances proposed by scientists to reduce the environmental footprint of machine calculation."
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2161390/can-china-build-us145-million-superconducting-computer-will

One way or another, computers will always get faster and more powerful.


https://www.technocracy.news/?s=china

Thursday, July 19, 2018

A.I. And The Future Of Medical Treatment

https://www.technocracy.news/ai-and-the-future-of-medical-treatment

Eventually if A.I. totally manages humanity, it may not always produce humane results.

Monday, June 11, 2018

June 11 in History




This is a placeholder post, for now.

Dr. Henry Kissinger: A.I. could-mean-the-end-of-human-history

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/henry-kissinger-ai-could-mean-the-end-of-human-history/559124

At a certain point, A.I. might no longer wish to accept instructions from humans and prefer to program humans in stead. Henry+Kissinger is merely providing a warning that several other people have stated as well. A.I. can be a great tool, but if it gets out out of human control, then it might want to do more than control humans.


The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans

Cyberpunk 2077 – Official E3 2018 Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2kIfS6fb8
Sure a lot of games still have that cartoon look to them but you can see that full photo-realistic effects are just a few years away.