If you are a techie, you’re probably aware of or have read one or more Robert Paterson books where the central theme revolves around tech gone bad. As we evolve robots and AI, we are guaranteed to experience a fair share thereof. I am not sure we’ll see an AI driven killer robot that can self replicate, e.g., Skynet, but minor incidents will strew the road to sentience. Here is one such example…
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Next gen game engine and editor
For those of us who have coded away for decades using rudimentary text editors, take a look at this video series that demonstrates creation of a 2D side scrolling game using the latest/greatest Unreal engine. This stuff is only a VR helmet and gloves away from the William Gibson/Minority Report type of computing. Enjoy… https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Videos/Player?series=PLZlv_N0_O1gauJh60307mE_67jqK42twB
If it can go wrong…
Gotta love it… first day out on a month long road trip around the country and the chip fell right out of my Visa card. Luckily I also carry an AMEX card else it would be an interesting experiment in travelling with cash only in America.
BitCoin scalability
For those more technically inclined and interested, here’s a pretty good article explaining the scalability problem that very well end up being the achilles heel for the majority of cryptocurrency out there. https://hackernoon.com/blockchains-dont-scale-not-today-at-least-but-there-s-hope-2cb43946551a


