It would appear that nature violates local realism. And if somebody could explain this whole “loopholes in physical laws” bit, I’d appreciate it. The terminology makes it sound as though physical laws are written by politicians.

(by Kristin Tercek)

It made me very happy to see this article, titled Shonky futurism: debunking Kurzweil. I wrote an essay about his book The Age of Spiritual Machines in University. It was bunk then, it’s bunk now.

The problem with the ideas proposed here are legion. But they are best summed up by this quote:

“Content and application providers should be able to know exactly what level of service they are getting especially if they are paying for it.”
-Ed Vaizy

We could write an essay on the subject of how infrastructure should serve the general population, and not specific business interests, but the Morning Coffee is not the place for such an essay. Suffice it to say that when politicians are more concerned with the well being of content providers than citizens, they do not have their priorities straight.