Author: Alan N. Shapiro
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8 metamathematical notions to serve a HyperModern World, by Alexis Clancy
From the work of the brilliant Irish experimental mathematician Alexis Clancy.
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What is hyper-modernism?, by Alan N. Shapiro
In the age that we are living in of new media, new technologies, and the information society, we find ourselves to be in a very new situation in our social and individual existence. As opposed to the previous historical periods of modernity/modernism and post-modernity/post-modernism, I call this new historical situation: hyper-modernity or hyper-modernism.
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Das Paradox, die Zukunft vorherzusehen, von Alan N. Shapiro
Die meisten Voraussagen über das, was geschehen mag, sind im wesentlichen psychologische Projektionen eines imaginären Zukunftsszenarios, bestehend aus einigen geläufigen Phänomenen, die sich tatsächlich bereits ereignet haben oder sich gerade gegenwärtig ereignen.
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“Ex Machina”: The End of Turing’s Man and the Paradigm Shift in Artificial Intelligence, by Alan N. Shapiro and Franco Torriani
In the 1930s, Alan Turing designed an impossible machine, a sort of mechanical computer. Building such a machine was not feasible, given those days’ technological level. However, some years later, Turing’s prophetic project became reality.
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“Black Mirror” und die Philosophie, von Vivianne Pärli
Was habe ich gelernt? Grundsätzlich, dass Alan mit seiner These, man könne heutzutage durch Fernsehserien etwas über Philosophie lernen, Recht hat. Mir war dieser Zusammenhang vorher nie wirklich klar. Besonders deutlich wird dies in der Serie „Black Mirror“.
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Homage to Bernie Sanders’ Democratic Socialism and George Orwell’s 1984, by Alan N. Shapiro
On April 4th of a year that he presumes to be 1984, Winston Smith positions himself in a small recessed space in his apartment, the only spot from which he cannot be observed by the telescreen. He begins to tranfer his “interminable restless monologue” onto the pages of a clandestinely procured hardbound writing tablet.