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Technology does not make us dumber
29
Jan
In an interview with Reddit what was said Microsoft founder Bill Gates, he said: “The technology does not make the least intelligent people” in question-and-answers he said: “If you look at the complexity of what people like in entertainment, you can see a big change in my life only period “.
He explained that: “The technology allows people to have their questions answered in a better way, then they are still more curious,” and so it comes as almost all the technology (there are destructive technologies as weapons and war equipment), it is thought for the better in some aspect of human life.
He explained the fear that much has the technology as well: “It is much easier to learn various subjects, which is important to solve complex problems,” when not know how to use properly are just grumbling about them.
We have commented here the book of Mark Bauerlein, author of The dumbest generation (The dumbest generation) that has a pessimistic analysis in which it anticipates a new Dark Ages, their mistakes are huge, but the most serious is credited to this current generation the deviation that has been going on in human thought for centuries.
Another widespread book already commented is to Nicholas Carr, Superficial, he is knowledgeable in technology and participates in the cloud computing project of the World Economic Forum, regularly writes about technology and culture in The Guardian, The New York Times, also sees only the current generation a problem of culture, especially in the West, which it has for centuries, the readings and superficial thoughts.
There are others, but in a phrase, the current crisis has deep roots and is postmodernity.
If becomes unsafe biometrics
28
Jan
Biometrics is the form used by banks, some safety equipment and also in the last elections
to identify people from fingerprints.
The hacker Jan Krissler states that could falsify the fingerprint of the German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, using photos taken with an ordinary camera.
This case reinforces the idea, which is advocated by some experts, that biometrics fingerprint is not a safe method, it is worth remember that began it was used in electronic voting machines in Brazil, in the last elections in this country.
Declarations of Krissler, using the code name “Starbug” among hackers, was made at a convention for CCC members (association of hackers Europe), he is 31 and his speech was also broadcast online by the association’s website.
In his speech said that the Von der Leyen pictures were taken in October, and a “close” your finger and photos from different angles was possible to fake the digital minister.
There is much talk in individual data security, but public safety and respect for states by citizen data are the biggest problem.
The internet will disappear, says head of Google
27
Jan
Not what you’re thinking, but the fact that it will become in such a way that this will be impossible to connect to something without using it, said the head of Google Eric Schmidt last Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, where they held the World Economic Forum.
Asked about the future of the Internet replied: “I will answer very simply that the internet will disappear,” second video made available by the network of US television CNBC.
But I did not mean by this that the Internet can follow the path of photographic film and floppy disks, but the understanding Schmidt is that the network will be in a way so present in our daily lives that will be inescapable.
May be present in a person’s life the moment he is born, in every moment of a person’s life, his family life, medical, student and various social activities, of course with the law of “forgetting” which is the ability to disappear with unwanted record.
But the problem of privacy remains, how to ensure that data is not lost and falling into the hands that make misuse, here’s a great problem to be solved
Technologies expected in 2015
23
Jan
Finally accessible to users (there are already versions for developers), the glasses Oculus Rift and Google Glass, Apple Watch (slightly exaggerated in some detail), Windows 10 (jumped 9) arrives with likely improvements; the annoying scroll screens 8 and the Start button and the new Microsoft phones (Nokia), Samsung and Chinese.
The Oculus Rift was the world champion sold kits, 75,000 kits to july last year when the company was bought by Facebook, promises to tackle the Google Glass, super advertised, commented, now promises to be entering the market, but the product arrived at Brazilian market for R $ 6,500.
Four days ago Google announced the end of the program and Google Glass disappeared.
Microsoft in this event last Wednesday (21/01) announced great news for Windows 10, including a new browser and new possibilities for games.
Around the start menu, but Windows 8 screen is still there, but now there is the possibility to leave everything on the home screen, without having to be “rolling” to the sides.
Microsoft will release Windows Phone 8.1 leaving aside the Nokia brand (although use this technology), Samsung launches its sixth model with versions in aluminum cover and the Chinese have occupied 38 market promising to overcome Apple’s iPhone in 10 years, according to Lenovo companies, Huawei and Xiaomi.
Not only consumerism is a need for flexible and advanced handsets to our tasks of everyday life, the cost is possible for Brazilians.
Six lessons of wisdom from technology
20
Jan
New technologies (or projects) require new way of thinking
The Bloodhound SSC project is expected to be the first land vehicle to break the barrier of the 1,000 mph (1,609 km / h), his biggest problem was reinventing the wheel, it is not the oldest invention, but how to design the fastest wheels in the world , able to remain stable and at supersonic speed and with limited financial resources?
According to the BBC technology, engineer Mark Chapman, “after hitting his head for four months,” understood that should use the new technologies of “new way,” said he, “What is unprecedented is the way we apply the technologies.”
Forming opinion from the evidence, not one’s own ideas
Geophysicist Steven Jacobsen at Northwestern University in the United States, among many other geophysical believed that the Earth’s water originated in comets.
But to study in depth the rocks as a way that scientists use to analyze the passage of time, he found water inside the ringwoodita in results January 2014 a mineral found in the Earth’s mantle, then found that the water is within the planets.
It takes more perspiration than inspiration
Yes it takes hard work, that understood the neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg of Cornell University in New York who wanted to develop a new prosthesis to heal assist the blind, and thought only in the organs and not in information and their code in the brain.
So found a key element when decoded the project to decipher the code that transmits information between the eyes and the brain, neuroscientist reveals: “When I realized that, could not eat, could not sleep All I wanted was to work.” , the transmission of information was important more than the mechanisms.
Tomorrow we continue, but we must “not have ready answers”, “have the chance” that some call the conspiracy of the universe or God’s Will, and finally wisdom is something indefinable for it, even these six lessons are questionable too.
Oscar 2015 keeps favorites
16
Jan
Birdman and Boyhood as said above contains critical to holliwoodian heroes (Batman, Superman, etc) and fame at any price, and could be out, but maybe got too explicit conservatism of the Academy, also appear in Alejandro González Iñárritu smooth (“Birdman”), Richard Linklater (“Boyhood”) which appears as best director Bennett Miller (“Foxcatcher: a story that shocked the world”) and best actor Steve Carell, but got out for best picture.
With “American Sniper”, this is the fifth time that a production it is nominated for best film, the Academy shows his veneration by Clint Eastwood.
“Whiplash” is not entirely a surprise, since he had won the Sundance Film Festival award in 2014 and is well regarded by critics, tells the career story of a young drummer who dreams of being the best of his generation and brand your name in American music as did Buddy Rich, his biggest idol in the battery, but it becomes an obsession.
The documentary “The salt of the earth” scholar Wim Wenders making a biopic of the Brazilian photo-graph Sebastião Salgado, was nominated, directed also by the Brazilian Juliano Salgado, son of Sebastian (see photo above).
The film about Alain Turing
15
Jan
The film “The Imitation Game” announced, including probably competing for the Oscar (the list comes out today), is about the life of Alan Turing, considered a” father of computing “and who committed suicide at age 42, after being sentenced to castration chemistry, for being gay.
Turing is played by British actor Benedict Cumberbatch and work are focused on their work, important to the Allied victory in the conflict, it unveiled the Enigma machine that was codification of German messages as well as their contribution to the history of computing.
But the film also shows the problems faced by scientist for being gay.
His conviction was in 1952 and his suicide in 1954, under the penalty for “indecency” and the drugs made him impotent and caused him to develop breasts, which may have contributed to his death.
It was only in 2013 that he received a posthumous pardon of Queen Elizabeth II, after a long campaign to clear his honor, because in 2009 there was a petition that has made the Prime Minister Gordon Brown to publish a public apology for the terrible persecution.
The work was adapted from the book’s biography “Alan Turing: The Enigma” (Enigma was the Nazi machine that Turing deciphered), written by Andrew Hodges.
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The premiere in Brazil is scheduled for February 5 and the list of 10 films nominated for an Oscar out today.
See the winners of the Golden Globes
13
Jan
The 2015 Golden Globe awards were presented this Sunday, January 11, some already expected as Birdman (see our post), a
s best musical comedy actor (Michael Keaton) and best screenplay, best film Boyhood – From Childhood to Youth , best director Richard Linklater and best supporting actress Patricia Arquette.
The award made by the Foreign Press Association in Hollywood had several references to North Korea and the attacks in France, with some actors including “Je Suis Charlie” in his speeches, see the other awards:
Best Actor – Drama
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Best Actress – Drama
Julianne Moore (Forever Alice)
Best Motion Picture – Comedy / Musical
The Grand Hotel Budapest
Best Actress – Comedy / Musical
Amy Adams (Big Eyes)
Best Supporting Actor
JK Simmons (Whiplash – Perfection In Search)
Best Animation Film
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Best Foreign Film
Leviathan (Russia)
Best Soundtrack
The Theory of Everything
Best Original Song
Glory (Selma, John Legend and Common)
Best Series – Drama
The Affair
Best Actor – Drama Series
Kevin Spacey (House of Cards)
Best Actress – Drama Series
Ruth Wilson (The Affair)
Best Series – Comedy / Musical
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Best Actor – Comedy Series / Musical
Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent)
Best Actress – Comedy Series / Musical
Gina Rodriguez (Jane The Virgin)
Best Miniseries / TV-Movie
Fargo
Best Actor – Miniseries / TV-Movie
Billy Bob Thornton (Fargo)
Best Actress – Miniseries / TV-Movie
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Honourable Woman)
Best Supporting Actor – Series / Miniseries / TV-Movie
Matt Bomer (The Normal Heart)
Best Supporting Actress – Series / Miniseries / TV-Movie
Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey)
Cecil B. DeMille Award
George Clooney
Jolie, the Pope and “Unbroken”
12
Jan
Angelina Jolie met with the pope, who attended a premiere of his new movie “Unbroken” which tells the story of an athlete and hero Louis Zamperini of World War II .
The meeting took place on the last day 7, she was accompanied only two children and no Brad Pitt, despite the meeting with the Pope, who expressed was expressed admiration for the message of peace which he transmits to the faithful, had already informed the Hollywood Reporter in 2012: “I have a great relationship with religion I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.”, but it’s good points out that she’s UN ambassador for refugees.
The film tells the true story of Zamperini athlete who has suffered a plane crash in World War II, fighting at sea 47 days to reach land and when it is captured by the Japanese.
Unbroken (in Brazil Invencible) is the second work of Jolie as director, previously worked in is In the Land of Love and Hate (2011).
The film is an adaptation of the book written by Laura Hillenbrand, called “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, published in 2010.
The launch is in cinemas worldwide on 15th, in Brazil there is still no release date.
Boris Broys and postmodern art
08
Jan
It seems that there is little to say about art, or is there perhaps a confusion between the limits of what is guaranteed and what is not, but I think Boris Groys and Jacques Rancière (gets to last post) can rather say something.
Boris Groys is a German 68-year-old study of mathematics from 1965 to 1971 at the University of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), working on a lot of research and attended the Moscow Conceptualism movement and published in 1979 the essay “Romantic Conceptualism of Moscow “then in 1981, was doing his PhD in philosophy at the University of Munich.
Groys is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (Ahikam), and has served as a partner of numerous institutions, including the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, Austria, Harvard University Art Museum, and University of Pittsburg.
Wrote the controversial “The Communist Postscript” (2010) and “Introduction to Antiphilosophy” (2012), but his little essay on Art in the age of digitization, for me an important work, which analyzes the famous work of Walter Benjamin “The Work of art in the Age of Mechanical reproduction “which assumes the possibility of a technically identical and perfect reproduction of form that does not allow a distinction between the original and the copy (Groys, 2010).
He teaches since 1994, philosophy and media theory at the Academy of Design (Hochschule für Gertaltung), which is directed by Peter Sloterdijk in Karlsruhe (Germany) our next post.
Boris Groys in his work art and philosophy have different treatments, for him, both one and the other mainly deal with issues that do not admit a permanent solution and therefore are immortal, in this approach, objectivity and subjectivity are mixed, and this perspective agreed.
Cultural requirements are not fictitious, say to a spectrum of things, and almost always the goal of artists and thinkers is to overcome what is considered more advanced, it has something dead in a field, and so position yourself in the best culture to the point which makes mortal immortal for having fulfilled the imaginary requirement of his time, and that this immortality is artificial, has the effect of political awareness
So what Groys proposed is that the symbolic space of art must include the dead, represented by his works, images, theories, attitudes, languages.
So the real cultural pressure does not come from positions of power, but from the dead and then it is a much more serious case that living as they continue to disturb this as creators
It’s what makes dead artists still in competition; as they, want, for example, get to have their whole issues in their libraries.
