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Algorithmic Art

Feedback in Google pattern matching algorithms creates surreal dreamscapes:

Impressionism was fascinated by the nature of seeing, colour and optics.
Is human art just the externalisation of our visual algorithms?
In fact our entire culture can probably be considered an external manifestation of cognitive biases and neural architecture.

No Country for Men

Women’s jobs safe from robots, Men’s jobs less so:

I worked in Austria years ago on a dairy farm turned hotel. Historically the men had worked the farms while the women had stayed at home running the house. Tourism had upset the status quo. Farming was marginalised, families prospered from the tourist money, women gained status – the men sat in cafes and bars and many took up the popular local hobby of alcoholism.

Eternal Youth from Young Blood?

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/04/can-we-reverse-ageing-process-young-blood-older-people
Demographics shifts wealth and power to the old. Youth gets student debt, unpaid internships, crazy property prices and now the prospect of getting the life squeezed out of them – drop by drop – to keep a population of ageing vampires young.

I can’t see this ending well.