![]() Tech Billionaires are a curious new species of the super rich. If another comes to me after print deadline, that in itself would qualify. Thank you for letting me get that off my chest. Central line feet-tappers, colourful ties for personalities, “I didn’t leave my party - it left me”. The hollow promise of extra cheese, baths, actors in roles where they pretend to hate their jobs. ![]() Tourists with backpacks on their chests, cyclists careering down the Regent’s Canal towpath, the continued existence of UK domestic air travel. Acquaintances who text back immediately, TfL banning adverts for junk food but not those posters of people yawning. ![]() Busy roads in the middle of parks (Victoria, Hyde), Nora Ephron erasure, Twitter bios that say “Likes = bookmarks” when there is a literal bookmarks tab right there.įriends who don’t text back. Alliteration, the spellings of “pursue”, “vehicle” and “campaign”, people who turn read receipts off on WhatsApp (but on for iMessage). Carrots, Euston mainline station, that time the Government declared that the “D” in DCMS suddenly stood for “digital”. West London, banter, the notion that being on mute when you’re supposed to talk, or on loud when you’re not, is still in any way amusing. Hot chocolate, car parks, north London versus south London discourse. House numbers spelt out in letters, schedule-sending emails, my iPhone automatically turning low power mode off at 80 per cent charge. Autumn, plays without an intermission, when the search function is disabled on PDFs. Video assistant referees, people with first names for surnames, restaurants that don’t take reservations. Mid-video YouTube adverts, shouting “Come on Tim!” at Wimbledon any time after 2007, “the next station is Highgut”. People who don’t press the button at pedestrian crossings (even if it doesn’t make a difference), the word “solidarity” (you don’t mean it), bad restaurant chips (there’s no excuse).įlat roofs, party conference season, lift-only Tube stations. Let's take a look at some great examples of pure sentience as showcased in science fiction.Brand sentience, making decisions, the time after Kirsty Young left Desert Island Discs, but before I learned to love Lauren Laverne. Even auto-dimming technology on your smartphone could be considered sentience-if not to a minute degree. Or that when a key is depressed on a keyboard, the computer reacts and puts the proper letter/symbol on screen. And I'll go even one further and argue that there's a degree of sentience within our real life computers now-although however minimal.įor instance, you can claim that a computer can "feel" actions performed by a mouse and interpret that to a moved cursor on screen. Think of it as something along the lines of instinct.īut what about something like "sentient AI"? Is that really a thing? Well, I'd go to say that in the realm of Science Fiction, sentient AI or computers are a real possibility. But all-in-all, we're referring to physical recognition of your actions or exterior stimuli. Some may argue the case for lesser organisms (bacteria, protozoa, and the like). Essentially every higher order being has sentience. ![]() Can you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel something? And know that you're doing so? basically it refers to being able to access your senses. "Responsive to or conscious to sense impressions aware finely sensitive in perception or feeling" As defined by Merriam-Webster, sentient means: ![]() Sentient vs Sapient: What does Sentient mean? ![]()
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