Tag: future

• My Name is John Connor

  

  I’ve long believed in the sentience of machines. I’m not alone.  Upon purchasing a new car, or any larger and more expensive (and therefore by implication sentient) machine, the owner’s first move will likely involve attributing a gender orientation to it.   And the second will be a christening. My first car was very definitely male. …

  frederick anderson

  October 15, 2021

  Social Comment

  AI, cars, future, history, impregnability, James Cameron, Machines, Microchips, Morphing, naming, Speculative fiction

• I Don’t Often Comment on American Affairs, But…

  I do have to say this: President Joe Biden is too old. I say it in a non-political way, because I have previously been advised that I don’t know enough about American politics, and I have no wish to offend those who do, but can a man who apparently gets lost on his way to…

  frederick anderson

  August 26, 2021

  Social Comment

  Afghanistan, age, Competence, future, Nuclear, President, survival, wealth

• New Year, and a Life in Captivity

  

  So the New Year is striking off on a down-beat note.   Differences from the celebrations of other years could not be more marked, at least if we obeyed the conventional wisdom and kept our seasonal conviviality strictly to ourselves. The which we did, self and memsahib, bingeing on Netflix and scarcely bothering to note…

  frederick anderson

  January 4, 2021

  Opinion, Social Comment

  Armageddon, Cliff edge, Direction, Distancing, free speech, future, Lockdown, New Year, Noughties, Woke