a lot of companies have a lot of solutions that should have been built with a database and some script that are instead cobbled together with workbooks and VBA. None of the OOXML compatible suites can handle it and that makes it impossible for companies to consider alternatives. I've seen entire payroll systems built using VBA as well as rostering and scheduling systems.

Pretty soon computers will be able to be controlled with our thoughts. Keyboards and mice will become obsolete as will touch screen. We will be able to compose messages by thinking it on to the screen and the concentrating on the parts we want to edit. The whole point of sitting down to work at a computer will become quaint when we can visualize the transformation of information and then transmit that information without needing to touch a device. Google glasses will become a thing again. Will we sit in a comfy chair staring in to our glasses for eight hours a day being paid to read reports and write emails? Or will we go for a long walk along the beach? One thing for sure is there will still be people saying that technology is bad for kids.

Psychedelics were life changing for me. After 20 years of chronic cannabis use and dysthymia I had some mdma and lsd one night and it's not easy to describe the actual experience without sounding like a mystic but I had a deep interoceptive experience of my mental and physical health problems. That awareness stayed with me in the following weeks and led me to quit smoking altogether and begin a regular exercise practice. The lifestyle changes had a profound effect on my mental health and I became more outgoing and socially active. I do think some pre-work with a psychotherapist who has experience with psychdelic integration would be a good thing for people with trauma and maybe it isn't going to work for everyone. But these are mostly harmless drugs that don't cause dependence with the potential to transform peoples lives.

It should definitely become a moral norm to treat robots with respect and even kindness for the same reason it's important for humans to treat animals with respect. If we normalize abuse to robots that are lifelike it will make it easier for people to carry out abuse against people. People will start to characterize people they don't like as being robots in a similar way to how humans have been characterized as animals. They might even be able to say they thought a human was a robot as a defence. And as the distinction between human and robot becomes increasingly blurred, there will be prejudice against transhumans and cyborgs.

But I don't see how it is evidence for free will. It seems to me to be more proof that free will does not exist and that decisions are involve some complex neurochemistry.

that will drive the conspiracy theorists crazy.

Australia is doing all we can to flood them too. Adani has state and federal government approvals for its new coal mine.

A book I read about neuroplasticity suggested that the brain can learn to process new electrical signals and that's something like how the cochlear implant works. I'm looking forward to being networked but I won't be volunteering for the first human trials.

It's the equivalent of evilcorps e-coin.

It's better to allow them to go extinct...that's what happens when their habitat changes faster than they can adapt. Trying to keep them around when there natural habitat is all gone is just selfishness on our part. A species does not suffer. It's members do.

Can we remove the F1 key at the same time?

it would be better if they notify people when their comments are probably boring or stupid.

Steve Jobs was to Bill Gates as Starscream is to Megatron.

The same people who tell you plants are conscious will say that fish don't feel pain.

I think all chip implants should have a serial number starting with 666.