Technologies of the Republic

[Ice29]

This is the stuff that I have been using on my website, regarding the technologies that make my
"United Republic of Britannia" run and operate.

Digital Infrastructure :

Microsoft – Official Home Page
Oracle | Integrated Cloud Applications and Platform Services Adobe: Creative, marketing and document management solutions IBM - United States
Cisco Analog, Embedded Processing, Semiconductor Company, Texas Instruments - TI.com Lenovo® US | #1 PC Maker | Laptops, Tablets & Computers Dell Official Site - The Power To Do More | Dell
HP® Official Site | Laptop Computers, Desktops, Printers and more Pitney Bowes Business Services and Digital Printing Solutions – Xerox

ARRIS | Invent the Future

Aeronautics, Defense, Security & Space :

Boeing: The Boeing Company Lockheed Martin · Lockheed Martin Northrop Grumman Corporation
Bombardier | Home Textron Home Home Home Bell Helicopter MD Helicopters SNC | Sierra Nevada Corporation | SNC | Sierra Nevada Corporation Welcome to Pilatus Aircraft Ltd

Raytheon: Customer Success Is Our Mission Orbital ATK Kongsberg Gruppen

Home | BAE Systems | International General Dynamics AM General LLC - Mobility solutions for the 21st Century
Navistar Defense - Navistar Defense Home Oshkosh Defense

Navantia Austal: Corporate | Redefining Maritime Excellence Swiftships | Military and Commercial Watercraft United States Marine Home page, USMI Home

FN - The World's Most Battle-Proven Firearms™ :: Home Heckler & Koch :: Home Home | Barrett
Dillon Aero: M134 Gatling Gun, Miniguns, M134 Gun Systems, Naval Mounts, Helicopter Mounts, Vehicle Mounts

Industry :

GE | Imagination at Work | Technology | Innovation | General Electric Homepage Home | United Technologies
Heating and Air Conditioning Services & Systems |Trane

Oilfield Services | Halliburton - Halliburton Home | Joy Global Inc. Liebherr USA
My Site | Schramm, Inc. based in West Chester, Pennsylvania USA manufactures land based portable top head drive drilling rigs J C Bamford Excavators Ltd Terex Global Landing Page
PALFINGER - Lifetime Excellence http://tenix.com/

http://www.mactools.com https://store.snapon.com http://www.matcotools.com
http://www.dewalt.com https://marshalltown.com

http://www.stihlusa.com/ http://www.baker-online.com http://woodmizer.com/us/

http://www.cat.com http://www.casece.com https://www.deere.com
http://www.agcocorp.com https://sukup.com/ http://www.grainger.com/

http://separmatic.com

Medical care :

http://www3.gehealthcare.com https://www.welchallyn.com http://www.stryker.com

Transportation, Trucking and Logistics :

http://www.bombardier.com http://www.boeing.com
http://www.novabus.com http://www.newflyer.com
http://www.mcicoach.com
http://www.navistar.com http://www.paccar.com
http://www.ford.com

Automotive :

http://www.ford.com http://www.landrover.com http://www.jaguar.com
http://www.miniusa.com

 

[waltky]

Will technology and bioscience be the undoing of liberal democracies?...

Technology and bioscience might be a threat to liberal democracies
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 - A book by historian Yuval Harari claims that artificial intelligence and genetic enhancements will usher in a world of inequality and powerful elites

The BBC Reith Lectures in 1967 were given by Edmund Leach, a Cambridge social anthropologist. “Men have become like gods,” Leach began. “Isn’t it about time that we understood our divinity? Science offers us total mastery over our environment and over our destiny, yet instead of rejoicing, we feel deeply afraid.” That was about half a century ago and yet Leach’s opening lines could easily apply to today. He was speaking before the Internet had been built and long before the human genome had been decoded and so his claim about men becoming “like gods” seems relatively modest compared with the capabilities that molecular biology and computing have subsequently bestowed upon us. Our science-based culture is the most powerful in history and it is ceaselessly researching, exploring, developing and growing. However, in recent times it seems to have also become plagued with existential angst as the implications of human ingenuity begin to be dimly glimpsed.

The title that Leach chose for his Reith Lecture — “A Runaway World” — captures our zeitgeist too. At any rate, we are also increasingly fretful about a world that seems to be running out of control, largely, but not solely, because of information technology and what the life sciences are making possible. We seek consolation in the thought that “it was always thus”: People felt alarmed about steam in George Eliot’s time and got worked up about electricity, the telegraph and the telephone as they arrived on the scene. The reassuring implication is that we weathered those technological storms, and so we will weather this one too. Humankind will muddle through. However, in the past five years or so even that cautious, pragmatic optimism has begun to erode. There are several reasons for this loss of confidence. One is the sheer vertiginous pace of technological change. Another is that the new forces at loose in our society — particularly information technology and the life sciences — are potentially more far-reaching in their implications than steam or electricity ever were. And, third, we have begun to see startling advances in these fields that have forced us to recalibrate our expectations.

Illustration: Mountain People​

A classic example is the field of artificial intelligence (AI), defined as the quest to enable machines to do things that would require intelligence if performed by a human. For as long as most of us can remember, AI in that sense was always 20 years away from the date of prediction. Maybe it still is, but in the past few years we have seen that the combination of “machine learning,” powerful algorithms, vast processing power and so-called “Big Data” can enable machines to do very impressive things — real-time language translation, for example, or driving cars safely through complex urban environments — that seemed implausible even a decade ago.

And this, in turn, has led to a renewal of excited speculation about the possibility — and the existential risks — of the “intelligence explosion” that would be caused by inventing a machine that was capable of recursive self-improvement. This possibility was first raised in 1965 by the British cryptographer I.J. Good, who famously wrote: “The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.”

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