Superintelligence - fixes our urban challenges?

The possibility of superhuman intelligence is most frequently discussed in the context of artificial intelligence. Increasing natural intelligence primarily through genetic engineering or computer interfacing. Many consider collective intelligence - urban community thinking collectively - as a pathway to superintelligence or even as an existing realization of the phenomenon.

Unfortunately, this approach is not taken seriously because many view superintelligence as a hypothetical entity which possesses intelligence surpassing that of any existing human being - but no real consideration has been given to a group of human beings. What is your opinion? Will it take "Superintelligence" to rid the world of racism, poverty and other social, economical, and educational ills?


Recommendations;

Fair or unfair: more cameras, more safety, more traffic tickets!

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's report - http://www.iihs.org/research/topics/pdf/r1151.pdf - finds red light cameras cut fatal crashes, but do not eliminate them. Basically the fuzzy logic used in the report implies that red-light cameras are helping certain drivers remember that red means stop. But whether you remember or not, you will get a ticket in the mail or, in some cases, by a police officer assigned (unluckily for you) to your location.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Fair or unfair: more cameras, more safety, more traffic tickets! - Washington DC Urban Technology | Examiner.com

Resources
Public Safety-Law Enforcement Technology: 19-20 April 1995, Orlando, Florida (Proceedings of Spie--the International Society for Optical Engineering, V. 2497.)


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CompTIA - Upgrade Wanted

Urban Unemployment Rate has not improved due to the endless among of books relating to the CompTIA assessments and certification.  The following books are cheaper than the urban workforce development programs but are they enough to get you a job?

Marshall McLuhan: A futurist, psychic, thought leader, fortune teller?

Over 20 years of my information communication technology (ICT) career has been fueled by the writtings of  Marshall McLuhan and yet his material seems like it was written yesterday. He had a gift to write and speak in the moment (i.e. past, present and future). "We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies." Imagine being haunted by your enemy which is a digital equivalent of yourself.  His material challenges whether humans has evolved beyond Darwin's limited concept of biological evolution, and whether our digital technology will utilmately evolve beyond us. I have always excepted the computer being as an extension of my nervous system, which should be mastered to senses the whole world. Paragraphs like "Unlike the animals, man has no nature but his own history. Electronically, this total history is now potentially present in a kind of simultaneous transparency that carries us into a world of what Joyce calls 'heliotropic noughttime.' We have been rapt in 'the artifice of eternity' by placing our nervous system around the entire globe." speaks directly to your person if your are open to listening. Tired of wondering why you think life sucks? There is some healing balm within these wriitng and its waiting to be found.

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