9th Day of Class

2045 => technological singularity
wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PPTMASSuseInventionsLogPRINT.jpg

talked about collective intelligence...

ants, birds, bees, fish..

3 common things: maintain personal space (around), alignment, cohesion (certain distance)

5% of ring leaders can control the other 95% of people...

Wikipedia, swarm intelligence... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence)

"group think" - consensus fast but not optimal (not necesarrily good)
example, lemmings jump into the ocean and die...

Leslie White, 5 stages/levels of energy development:
- We use our own muscles, we have to do everything ourselves
- Domesticated animals, use others to assist us.
- Agriculture, we grow food in one place, reduce hunting & build cities
- Natural resources, oil, gas, extracting energy from the Earth
- Nuclear energy,

* Kardashev_scale on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale) for future

development [planet, space(sun), galactic]

* Autonomous cruise control system

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_system)

Books: By Neal Stephenson "Snow Crash" & "The Diamond Age"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson)

Will edit a little more ...