A Blog of the Ridiculous and Sublime, by Mark Sackler
“I’m a peripheral visionary. I can see the future but only way off to the side.”–Steven Wright
Oh, my. What does Friday taste like? Where are those “future of food” people when you need them? (I might add that any professional futurist knows that you have to look way off to the side, as well as straight ahead, to get any idea of what the future might really hold).
“The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt”–Peter Diamandis”
I had the great pleasure of meeting the illustrious Dr. Diamandis at the X Prize foundation a couple of weeks ago. Too bad he isn’t a super villain, “The diabolical Dr. Diamandis” has a great aliterative ring to it.
Shameless self promotion department–here is the link to my Seeking Delphi™ podcast with interviews recorded at the X Prize Foundation Future of Longevity Impact Roadmap, April 29-30, 2019.
“What will kill us first, artificial intelligence or natural stupidity?’–Habib Haddad
I’m not sure if it matters whether we give a damn. Time will tell. No further comment necessary.
“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”–Thomas Jefferson
“If you live to one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.”–George Burns
Wow. It only took me six years and two months to count to 100. Just think, in dog years, this blog is middle-aged.
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”–Douglas Adams
One deadline you absolutely can’t miss is Towel Day. Keep your towel handy and don’t panic.
“One human data is worth a billion mice.”–Bioviva CEO, Elizabeth Parrish**
So what about goldfish data? And don’t even ask about the mice’s point of view on human data. All they care about is the cheese.
**Don’t look for this quote anywhere else on the internet–yet. It comes directly from my interview with Parrish that will air on the next Seeking Delphi™ podcast, and appear in the March issue of Age of Robots.
“Ring out the false; ring in the true.”–Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happy belated New Year. Let your resolution be to ring in the true. I’ll take care of the rest.
“Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.”–Gary Allan
Santa would never dare mess with my lawyer. And I had naughty nailed decades ago. Naughty or nice, enjoy the holiday season. In a few days, we return to reality.
“We view ourselves as separate from the cosmos, and separate from each other. The truth is, we are a continuum. One line of code in an enormously complex computational system.”–Gray Scott
Let’s just hope that code isn’t corrupt. I have my doubts.
“This you may say of man – having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.” –John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Past performance is no guarantee of future results.”–boilerplate investment disclaimer
The last time I took a half step back, I tripped over the lawn sprinkler and almost sprained an ankle. But I managed to recover. As for the current state of Western society, I’m not so sure that past performance will save us. For deeper analysis of what all of this means for the future, visit my other blog (and podcast) at Seeking Delphi.™
I'm not the most interesting man in the world, but I might have the most cluttered mind.
