Comments on: Worst. Singularity. Ever. aka how NOT to predict the future http://torley.com/worst-singularity-ever-aka-how-not-to-predict-the-future Home of the musical Dream Journal. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:29:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Torley http://torley.com/worst-singularity-ever-aka-how-not-to-predict-the-future/comment-page-1#comment-50745 Torley Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:19:20 +0000 http://torley.com/worst-singularity-ever-aka-how-not-to-predict-the-future#comment-50745 @Jean-Marie: Me too, otherwise we're going to be living the future portrayed in the Terminator shows! (As in, Catherine Weaver as CEO of ZeiraCorp). @CyFishy: Even accounting for drastically different interpretations of what a "narrative game" is, yes, you nailed it. @Speedmaster: That's one of my fave games! Haha, "cloud computing" is one of my UNfavorites. It helps to label things to identify them easier, it's true. But no one deserves to attach meaning to emptiness. @Loraan: Aye, without definitions and some clarity, it's just so grossly LOLarious. I wonder if this chart makes Edward Tufte, nemesis of bad PowerPoint, bawl his eyes out! Have you heard of him? @Jean-Marie: Me too, otherwise we're going to be living the future portrayed in the Terminator shows! (As in, Catherine Weaver as CEO of ZeiraCorp).

@CyFishy: Even accounting for drastically different interpretations of what a "narrative game" is, yes, you nailed it.

@Speedmaster: That's one of my fave games! Haha, "cloud computing" is one of my UNfavorites. It helps to label things to identify them easier, it's true. But no one deserves to attach meaning to emptiness.

@Loraan: Aye, without definitions and some clarity, it's just so grossly LOLarious. I wonder if this chart makes Edward Tufte, nemesis of bad PowerPoint, bawl his eyes out! Have you heard of him?

]]> By: Loraan Fierrens http://torley.com/worst-singularity-ever-aka-how-not-to-predict-the-future/comment-page-1#comment-50734 Loraan Fierrens Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:38:35 +0000 http://torley.com/worst-singularity-ever-aka-how-not-to-predict-the-future#comment-50734 What a hoot. This is the sort of bullet-pointed nonsense I see at work all the time (although perhaps not quite this bad). I honestly don't know which part is the worst/funniest here. Maybe the "30 percent of all celebrities are synthetic" comment. What with botox and all, haven't we already reached that point? ;-) More seriously though, this gets at something I've been concerned about at work for a while. Bullet points are _bad_. It's too easy to sit down and do a presentation with a mess of bullet points and have your audience walk away from it thinking they understood something. It's also too easy for those bullet points to be hiding the fact that there is no content in your presentation and no thought. What a hoot. This is the sort of bullet-pointed nonsense I see at work all the time (although perhaps not quite this bad). I honestly don't know which part is the worst/funniest here. Maybe the "30 percent of all celebrities are synthetic" comment. What with botox and all, haven't we already reached that point? ;-)

More seriously though, this gets at something I've been concerned about at work for a while. Bullet points are _bad_. It's too easy to sit down and do a presentation with a mess of bullet points and have your audience walk away from it thinking they understood something. It's also too easy for those bullet points to be hiding the fact that there is no content in your presentation and no thought.

]]> By: Speedmaster Bing http://torley.com/worst-singularity-ever-aka-how-not-to-predict-the-future/comment-page-1#comment-50728 Speedmaster Bing Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:18:01 +0000 http://torley.com/worst-singularity-ever-aka-how-not-to-predict-the-future#comment-50728 When I see, or hear, stuff similar to that it always reminds me of http://www.bullshitbingo.net/ Web 2.0 (I'm still waiting for my Service pack 1 to patch my intertubes) and cloud computing (Isn't Second Life per definition already running in "the cloud"?) seems to be the buzzwords today, covering up they are terms for old technology ;-) When I see, or hear, stuff similar to that it always reminds me of http://www.bullshitbingo.net/
Web 2.0 (I'm still waiting for my Service pack 1 to patch my intertubes) and cloud computing (Isn't Second Life per definition already running in "the cloud"?) seems to be the buzzwords today, covering up they are terms for old technology ;-)

]]> By: CyFishy Traveler http://torley.com/worst-singularity-ever-aka-how-not-to-predict-the-future/comment-page-1#comment-50727 CyFishy Traveler Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:35:15 +0000 http://torley.com/worst-singularity-ever-aka-how-not-to-predict-the-future#comment-50727 Wait, "Narrative Games" just showed up in 2008? Just now? Narrative games have been around since, cripes, text-based stuff back in the 80s. Infocom built a whole company on them. Douglas Adams wrote a couple of them. This is SO not anything new. I'm in the process of writing a novel set in the far-flung future and what's embarrassing is how technology is catching up and surpassing the stuff I come up with. (Fortunately, it's not intended for publication, just for my own personal entertainment.) Wait, "Narrative Games" just showed up in 2008? Just now?

Narrative games have been around since, cripes, text-based stuff back in the 80s. Infocom built a whole company on them. Douglas Adams wrote a couple of them. This is SO not anything new.

I'm in the process of writing a novel set in the far-flung future and what's embarrassing is how technology is catching up and surpassing the stuff I come up with. (Fortunately, it's not intended for publication, just for my own personal entertainment.)

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