The new balance

This I posted in response to an article, The Local e-Democracy National Project. Read that first, then read on after the jump. If you've got any comments to make, then no holds are barred, as usual. Read More

I was reading an article by MIT psychologist and sociologist Sherry Turkle on relational artifacts, and whether our attitude to them is changing and also the way they change the human approach to the classical question of the viability of artificial intelligence.

This is the first time I've felt inspired to write for a long time. I'm sitting in the Cabin, it's not even particularly late, the internal thermometer reads 20.5 degrees C (a little warm, maybe, as I'm wearing a fleece, which isn't much like me at all) and my weather gDesklet reads 7 deg. C at Heathrow. Perfect conditions?

I've been reading the blog and site of Steve Pavlina, an ex youth offender, now turned games programmer and life improvement expert. He's vegan, and has a penchant for doing wierd things, like adopting a polyphasic sleep cycle (I only found out about that after I "discovered" that I may have DSPS, which would explain why I keep odd hours but am not lazy or an insomniac in the traditional sense).

I'll now discuss more of those articles after the jump. Read More