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It's that time of year again.... E3 2003 is just around the corner.
Big price drops (pay $150 XBox/PS2, $100 GC), online Mario Kart, and lots and lots of new gaming info are but 3 days away. It's going
to be a busy week on the gaming internet.
I went to go see the Lizzie McGuire movie last night, which was suprisingly good. I watch the TV show every once in a
while, and while the movie was full of plot holes, medicore acting, and bland film making, it was really really
funny and fun. Plus I'm a sucker for cheesy romantic subplots :) The song that she sings is incredibly catchy as well
in that catchy-bubble-gum-pop kinda way. I give it another 12 hours on continous repeat on my mp3 player
before I become legally insane.
Last night I also bought The Age of
Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil which is the same author that I've talked about before
on here, with that radio interview of him
discussing the book. I've gotten through about a 100 pages so far, and it's been really really facinating. The book deals
with how computers will become our next stage of evolution, and the possiblities that will occur in the next few decades.
Some truly amazing, though to many people scary, ideas in here, as humans and machines begin to converge into one single entity.
It also brings up the question of how do we determine when a machine is
"intelligent", what is conciousness, and once we download someone into a computer, are they still the same person?
I think his timetable for this stuff happening is very optimistic, but I think that one day it will
happen.
Just FYI: Lots and lots of measurement conversions. Courtesy
of the US government.
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