Preface From this week, we start a series of discussions with an aim to investigate the Metaverse(s). These blogs are our vantage points regarding the matter and will put the concept into a wider context to help develop an alternative yet wider theoretical understanding that – in our opinion – underlies, fuels, or impacts theContinue reading “Metaverse Part One: The World is Not Enough!”
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iAI?!
Prologue To AI or to not AI, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, … The main plot If you look up for cons, dangers orContinue reading “iAI?!”
Does AI forget things?
More than any other blogpost I have written so far, this post seeks to raise a question which has been bothering me for a while. So, I thought I just shared it with you and sought your views on that. The main plot I walk a fair bit on the South Coast and in theContinue reading “Does AI forget things?”
The Next Challenge for/of AI
Prologue While visiting Penn State University’s Department of Architectural Engineering and Stuckeman School in 2007, I came across the concept of Emotional Intelligence in a workshop by G. Brent Darnell, an international best-selling author and leading authority on Emotional Intelligence, in CONVR conference 2007. According to HelpGuide, emotional intelligence is: Emotional intelligence (otherwise known asContinue reading “The Next Challenge for/of AI”
5? No! 32? No! 33 or Virtureality 2.0…
Prologue My other post about virtuality was read and I got some suggestions from some of the people I care about as to maybe I want to write a follow up on that post; between you and me, I think they liked it. So here we go… Plot one: Hunger Have you heard of SuzanneContinue reading “5? No! 32? No! 33 or Virtureality 2.0…”
Virtureality: Boon or Bane?
Prologue 1 We, Homosapiens, have undergone a constant and steady evolutionary process over the course of the last millennia. We are still undergoing this evolutionary process in the digital era at/to/with an unprecedented rate/extent/dimension. The ways in which we are evolving in the digital era is different from our revolutionary journey throughout the history. WeContinue reading “Virtureality: Boon or Bane?”
This journey all started 6 years ago, and it was all Simon’s fault! (PtV)
Chapter 8: Well to be totally fair, this one was not particularly Simon’s fault! This one had more to do with Mr Michael Dell! My first laptop I carried on with the story of my personal (technology) journey between 1992 and circa 2003 in Part IV. As a quick reminder, here we are now, inContinue reading “This journey all started 6 years ago, and it was all Simon’s fault! (PtV)”
This journey all started 6 years ago, and it was all Simon’s fault! (PtIV)
Chapter 7 (The show must go on!): If you have followed my story in Part I, Part II of this blog, you know by now that we are going through my personal journey through which I ended up where I am now and we are in circa 1992 with all my attempts put into learningContinue reading “This journey all started 6 years ago, and it was all Simon’s fault! (PtIV)”
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Design
We all remember HAL from “2001: A Space Odyssey” (or at least I DO) and I, for one, am a fan of “Person of Interest”, but this is not science-fiction anymore, nor is it illusion or delusion… While Forbes indicated 27 examples of uses of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) in practice nearlyContinue reading “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Design”
User involvement, participatory design and other good stuff through VR, AR and I don’t know… some other good stuff…
We’ve heard tons of bad stuff in the news recently to the extent that we are now on the verge of questioning the existential need for, and/or losing our faith in, the demonising nature of media; we really long to hear some good stuff, we want to believe news doesn’t need to be bad toContinue reading “User involvement, participatory design and other good stuff through VR, AR and I don’t know… some other good stuff…”
This journey all started 6 years ago, and it was all Simon’s fault! (PtIII)
Chapter 6 (or how did I learn AutoCAD?): The short answer is with difficulties, to say the least! The long answer… well, that’s the story of this chapter. But before that let me ask you the same question? How did (or would) you learn AutoCAD (or any other software application for that matter)? Let meContinue reading “This journey all started 6 years ago, and it was all Simon’s fault! (PtIII)”
This journey all started 6 years ago, and it was all Simon’s fault! (PtII)
Chapter 4: My first official post in a university as a computer demonstrator started post-revolution (see my previous post)! As I was pretty good at computer programming in GW-Basics and Graphic Basics in the computer module/course (or at least the professor thought I was), I was picked up to spend 4 hours per week ofContinue reading “This journey all started 6 years ago, and it was all Simon’s fault! (PtII)”
This journey all started 6 years ago, and it was all Simon’s fault!
Chapter 1: My passion for and journey in the digital world started when I was about 9 or 10 (and that’s just about four decades ago!) and with a TV-Game console which, by today’s standards, looked very much like Don Chaffey’s One Million Years B.C. of 1966! It then evolved into a Commodore 64 andContinue reading “This journey all started 6 years ago, and it was all Simon’s fault!”
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