Millionise your lashes. These were the words staring me in the face late one Friday evening. I literally started crying, sobbing like a little baby. Admittedly, I may have been more than a little bit intoxicated; but still, those words affected me. Millionise your lashes.
What do we want to be?
Tag Archive: ethics
The Shifting Paradigms of Alternate Reality Gaming
The phone rings late one evening. You answer it to hear the voice of a woman in distress: ‘I can’t keep this up any longer, they’re getting to close to the truth!’. She hangs up suddenly, but not before leaving you with a cryptic clue – a password to some online network that she had managed to get a hold of. Your next move, should you choose to take it, is to log onto that network and download the encrypted data hidden within.
Discussion: Does social media negatively impact spirituality?
I wanted to try a slightly different angle with this post and create a call-out for discussion surrounding a particular topic: does social media negatively impact spirituality?
Corporate Ethics: To better the world, we must better ourselves
It’s a real cliché these days – ethics. Ever since the financial crisis, businesses and top-level management have been throwing around the word (and others such as values, integrity, sustainability) like rice at a wedding. All of a sudden, everybody’s got a conscience.
Google’s Safe Harbour for the Pirates
So, big news today for those watching the ongoing battles surrounding online breaches of copyright – the first major round of the war between YouTube (Google) and Viacom (plus others) has been won by the accused.
Staring into the Abyss of Social Media
We’re all having a great time, it seems – the world is a happy place, rejoicing in the mutual celebration of competitive sport, technological progress, and a Northern Hemisphere summer (and LOL cats…always with the bloody LOL cats). But hold on one moment…
The Rabbi & the Golem: A Parable on Synthetic Life
There was a very exciting announcement recently that synthetic life had been created in a laboratory through the wonderful applications of scientific advancement. Rather than my usual commentary on the ethics of this situation, I thought I would try something different and provide a spiritual parable of sorts about synthetic life. I hope that you enjoy it.
The Atheist/Android Conundrum
With today’s post I’m going to explore a common issue in the realm of futurist thought, and one that has been regularly examined in science-fiction literature and film over the past fifty years or so: sentient androids. Are they possible? What would it mean if they were? And how is it going to impact our own sense of identity? More acutely, I’m also going to ask whether or not a belief in metaphysical reality will impact our reaction to such advancement.
Secular Spirituality: Sacred acts, profane thoughts
With today’s post I want to embark a bit more upon this new direction that I spoke about last week, a direction that was going to be infused with more of a spiritual understanding and voice in an attempt to move away from the purely neutral ‘Wikipedia’ tone that some of my news posts were guilty of. What I’ve picked as a topic to start this new tone is one that has always interested me and is becoming increasingly more important and central to modern life in the developed world: secular spirituality.
Future Conscience: Taking a slightly different direction
It’s always interesting looking back at work that you have done, trying to gauge whether or not it should be considered successful or worth continuing with. Recently I’ve been going through this process with Future Conscience, wondering just how it will continue into the future and whether or not any changes should be made to the writing style and content.
