The Real Vaulties: Tech Billionaires and Secret Hide Away Bunkers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly17834524o

Maybe Fallout had it right all along? 

We should find out tomorrow night on Netflix!

The Singularity is Near (2005) and The Singularity Is Nearer (2024)

There is someone shouting a message. "The Singularity is Nearer" (2024). he being - an old [Strong] AI proponent and technology futurist called Ray Kurzwell and he is shouting louder than ever. Seeing as the book was only available in hardback I decided Audible was the best way to get my hands on it and also head round it. I was intrigued that this is a follow on book from his (2005) The Singularity is Near, so at the same time I picked it up cheap in a paperback format (see below, the new - a message of hope, ambition in the technology convergence of AI and perhaps a naïve sense "That it will all right on the night" - something that Geoff Hinton would totally disagree with): 

The old (The Singularity is Near) is a very chunky book too - so reading it in 2025 to see how close he was to getting predictions right in 2025 will be interesting (see below - shiny black and with clichéd graphics, but packed with information and speculations):

You will only appreciate it's size/thickness when you see it end on (see below, one thing a book gives that Audible cannot, is lovely diagrams - so sigh, sometimes you need both, well that's my excuse): 

Part II of my study is to be  time travelling back and forth to 2005 and 2025. Watch this space! I suspect a but of confusion and wry humour .. be careful what you wish for.

Please Keep Off the Grass

In the computer trade sometimes hype breaks common sense reasoning. Perhaps I too have been guilty of this. Drawn along by the Agile Manifesto I sounded out the mantra of "Move Fast and Break Things Quick". Perhaps I should also remember the simplest and most powerful of mathematical techniques - always view the validity of the inverse argument to see if it is more powerful! So from the lips of the Microsoft President:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-49768347/microsoft-president-don-t-move-fast-and-break-things

Maybe we all can be "Muppets"! Hey those are social media weapons of mass destruction.

Brad Smith's book - Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

Bits of Space, Science and Technology Related News

Lots of interesting posts I emailed myself: 

BBC News:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49026227
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48966645
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nkzysaP3pB/to-the-moon-and-beyond
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48696023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47879538 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47786248
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47732139
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47607696
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-47553876
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47555588
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-46778879
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48289550
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47983756
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44654098
https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/whats-the-point-of-humiliation/p06c6xxb
https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/five-compelling-reasons-why-we-all-need-to-sleep-m/p06fshzv
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/get-inspired/43501261
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49240745
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49182184
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49265125
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49270325
https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/can-you-really-multitask-finally-an-answer/p07jstyl
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49253951

Psychology: Stamford Prison Experiment (VSAUCE) 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nSFpj9HTCZ5t-N3Rm3-HA

Sky News: 
https://news.sky.com/story/eu-satellite-navigation-system-galileo-suffers-major-outage-11763506

Air and Space Website:
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/what-can-you-really-see-space

Nuclear Weapons Accident - Spain:
https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu:180784/datastream/PDF/view

Real Size of Countries
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/

YouTube Ground Tracking:
https://youtu.be/g2lKb1SnpsQ

Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_warfare

Curious Droid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVvaVvRViYQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=428&v=vluzeaVvpU0

Python Tutorial:
https://docs.python.org/3.6/tutorial/index.html

Space Web-Site:
https://www.heavens-above.com/SolarEscape.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT

Real-Time Satellite Tracker:
http://www.gano.name/shawn/JSatTrak/
http://apps.agi.com/SatelliteViewer/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbbd-4oEds&feature=youtu.be
https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satellites
https://celestrak.com/satcat/search.php
https://celestrak.com/software/satellite/sat-trak.php

Just tell me this is not true please:
https://mb.ntd.tv/inspiring/life/ancient-texas-hammer-found-embedded-in-rock-said-to-be-500-million-years-old.html