Informatics Quotes

If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival.

Freud described three great historical wounds to the primary narcissism of the self-centered human subject, who tries to hold panic at bay by the fantasy of human exceptionalism. First is the Copernican wound that removed Earth itself, man’s home world, from the center of the cosmos and indeed paved the way for that cosmos to burst open into a universe of inhumane, nonteleological times and spaces. Science made that decentering cut. The second wound is the Darwinian, which put Homo sapiens firmly in the world of other critters, all trying to make an earthly living and so evolving in relation to one another without the sureties of directional signposts that culminate in Man. Science inflicted that cruel cut too. The third wound is the Freudian, which posited an unconscious that undid the primacy of conscious processes, including the reason that comforted Man with his unique excellence, with dire consequences for teleology once again. Science seems to hold that blade too. I want to add a fourth wound, the informatic or cyborgian, which infolds organic and technological flesh and so melds that Great Divide as well.

A different study by Gloria Mark, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine—who I interviewed—observed how long on average an adult working in an office stays on one task. It was three minutes.

Junk is the “ideal product” because the “junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

It is well known that prevention is better than having to cure.

health informatics is about bringing data and new technologies to efforts to improve human health.

Python is much more like a dog, loving you unconditionally, having a few key words that it understands, looking you with a sweet look on its face (>>>), and waiting for you to say something it understands.

Why does gender appear in this primal scene of humans meeting their evolutionary successors, intelligent machines? What do gendered bodies have to do with the erasure of embodiment and the subsequent merging of machine and human intelligence in the figure of the cyborg?

Virtuality is the cultural perception that material objects are interpenetrated by information patterns. The definition plays off the duality at the heart of the condition of virtuality—materiality on the one hand, information on the other. Normally virtuality is associated with computer simulations that put the body into a feedback loop with a computer-generated image. For example, in virtual Ping-Pong, one swings a paddle wired into a computer, which calculates from the paddle’s momentum and position where the ball would go. Instead of hitting a real ball, the player makes the appropriate motions with the paddle and watches the image of the ball on a computer monitor. Thus the game takes place partly in real life (RL) and partly in virtual reality (VR). Virtual reality technologies are fascinating because they make visually immediate the perception that a world of information exists parallel to the “real” world, the former intersecting the latter at many points and in many ways. Hence the definition’s strategic quality, strategic because it seeks to connect virtual technologies with the sense, pervasive in the late twentieth century, that all material objects are interpenetrated by flows of information, from DNA code to the global reach of the World Wide Web.

Telehealth will have the ability to extend the reach of care from the traditional face-to-face interaction between patient and clinician whether it’s to obtain a diagnosis, collect medication, or receive treatment, even surgery.

Writing programs (or programming) is a very creative and rewarding activity. You can write programs for many reasons ranging from making your living to solving a difficult data analysis problem to having fun to helping someone else solve a problem.

If something seems particularly hard, there is usually no value in staying up all night and staring at it. Take a break, take a nap, have a snack, explain what you are having a problem with to someone (or perhaps your dog), and then come back to it with fresh eyes.

Python is much more like a dog, loving you unconditionally, having a few key words that it understands, looking you with a sweet look on its face (>>>), and waiting for you to say something it understands. When Python says “SyntaxError: invalid syntax”, it is simply wagging its tail and saying, “You seemed to say something but I just don’t understand what you meant, but please keep talking to me (>>>).

there is a relation among the desire for mastery, an objectivist account of science, and the imperialist project of subduing nature, then the posthuman offers resources for the construction of another kind of account. 18 In this account, emergence replaces teleology; reflexive epistemology replaces objectivism; distributed cognition replaces autonomous will; embodiment replaces a body seen as a support system for the mind; and a dynamic partnership between humans and intelligent machines replaces the liberal humanist subject’s manifest destiny to dominate and control nature. Of

literary studies share with Moravec a major blind spot when it comes to the significance of embodiment.3 This blind spot is most evident, perhaps, when literary and cultural critics confront the fields of evolutionary biology. From an evolutionary biologist’s point of view, modern humans, for all their technological prowess, represent an eye blink in the history of life, a species far too recent to have significant evolutionary impact on human biological behaviors and structures. In my view, arguments like those that Jared Diamond advances in Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies and Why Sex Is Fun : The Evolution of Human Sexuality should be taken seriously.4 The body is the net result of thousands of years of sedimented evolutionary history, and it is naive to think that this history does not affect human behaviors at every level of thought and action.

primary vehicle for Modi’s NRI propaganda. Modi also made him the director of Gujarat Informatics Limited around 2011 and it was ever since then that Rajesh Jain has been spawning website after website for promoting the political fortunes of Modi.

for academics who are continuously told to “publish or perish” to want to always create something from

There’s clearly a tendency for people to attempt multiple, simultaneous—as much as they can—activities,” said Dr. Adam Gazzaley, director of neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco.3 But research shows that our propensity for multitasking and distractions is a bad thing. According to UC Irvine professor of informatics Dr. Gloria Mark, once you are captured by a distraction, it can take up to twenty-three minutes to get back on track.4 And since the average person succumbs to distractions an average of every three minutes, it can be difficult to escape.5 It’s even worse if you are a multitasker. You might think a chronic multitasker would be more adept at switching between tasks, but you would be wrong. A recent study by Stanford professor Eyal Ophir found that “heavy media multitaskers”—those who consumed a large amount of media content—were not only more susceptible to irrelevant stimuli, but they were also significantly slower when it came to switching between tasks.6 Another study, from the University of Utah, found that people who identified as “strong multitaskers” were in fact the least capable multitaskers of the 310 subjects they tested. Heavy multitaskers are far less capable of inhibiting distractions than those who identify as light multitaskers.7

Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data - i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. Of generalized interactivity abolishing particularized action. Of the interface which abolishes challenge, passion, and rivalry between peoples, ideas and individuals which was always the source of the finest energies. It is difficult to find a remedy for our own sadness, because we are ourselves implicated in it. It is difficult to find a remedy for other people's sadness because we are prisoners of it.

Just a few of the many companies I worked for in the short five-year period before starting Sierra: Bekins Moving and Storage, Burroughs Corporation, Groman’s mortuary, McDonnell Douglas, Fredericks of Hollywood, Sterling Computer Systems, Financial Decision Systems, Informatics, Aratek Services, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Chaffey Junior College, the State of Illinois, Warner Brothers Studios, Atlantic Records.

M-a informat ca nu exista un sens al vieții. Nu exista rost. Nu exista Dumnezeu. Nimeni nu veghează asupra ta și nu are în vreun fel grija ta. Nu exista viata dupa moarte. Nici destin. Nici vreun plan. Si sa nu cred pe nimeni care-mi spune ca ar exista. Sunt numai niște chestii pe care le născocesc oamenii ca sa aibă o consolare când se confrunta cu teribilul sentiment ca nimic din toate astea nu contează și ca nici tu nu contezi. Dar adevărul este ca nimic din toate astea nu contează și ca nici tu nu contezi.

El mero concepto de un organismo de control me revuelve el estómago tanto como los idiotas que pueden defender un sistema basado en la vigilancia perpetua. Nadie vigila nunca en verdad. Es otra ilusión de verificación imposible. Solo aquellos con las capacidades, medios y conocimientos específicos pueden auditar algo así. ¿Qué queda entonces para todo el resto? Confiar ciegamente.

Lo humano a la larga, siempre resulta momentáneo.

La posteridad no admite medias tintas. Si no se quiere ser tratado como masa imbécil, no hay que comportarse como una.

Eres joven pero a este paso, la tecnología de la información va a pasarte por arriba, y nadie extrañará tu joven cadáver pisoteado si no le sacan una foto para las redes sociales.

Es difícil de entender porque resulta contraintuitivo para los calores humanos de comprensión. La cantidad de data que se genera en un segundo, en el mundo actual es tan grande que la hemos dejado como algo incognoscible. Hemos asumido que se encuentra por fuera total de nuestro alcance o raciocinio. La hemos llamado destino, voluntad de Dios o suerte azarosa. Cuando en verdad, no hay nada en este universo librado al azar.

Todos los críticos son prostitutos intelectuales. Algunos por dinero y otros por gusto.

Vivimos en una era en la que la verdad es selectiva. A voluntad.

History is full of dead people who do not have to live with the consequences of their acts, cowardice and mistakes.

Posterity does not accept half measures. If you don't want to be treated like an idiot mass, you don't have to behave like one.

It's hard to think of posterities, when today is so urgent.

The human in the long run is always momentary.

A sender of information creates order and so reverses the sign of entropy by assessing the largest possible array of informatic options, then choosing what fits the communicational situation. Systems that lack options are relatively predictable, low in information. Extreme order is as destructive of information as extreme chaos.

Months before his Davos debut, Xi had struck a different tone in a speech to Chinese tech titans and Communist Party leaders in Beijing for a conference on “cyber security and informatization.” To an audience that included Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, high-profile People’s Liberation Army (PLA) researchers, and most of China’s political elite, Xi exhorted China to focus on “gaining breakthroughs in core technology as quickly as possible.” Above all, “core technology” meant semiconductors. Xi didn’t call for a trade war, but his vision didn’t sound like trade peace, either. “We must promote strong alliances and attack strategic passes in a coordinated manner. We must assault the fortifications of core technology research and development…. We must not only call forth the assault, we must also sound the call for assembly, which means that we must concentrate the most powerful forces to act together, compose shock brigades and special forces to storm the passes.” Donald Trump, it turned out, wasn’t the only world leader who mixed martial metaphors with economic policy. The chip industry faced an organized assault by the world’s second-largest economy and the one-party state that ruled it.

Informatics is the field of medicine that concerns itself with “the interactions among and between humans and information tools and systems.” In 2013, it became an official specialty, like cardiology or obstetrics, with its own board certification.

Databases, ontologies, and visual representations tie informatic genomes to the specific practices of computers, computational biology, and bioinformatics.

But the posthuman does not really mean the end of humanity. It Signals instead the end of a certain conception of the human, a conception that may have applied, at best, to that fraction of humanity who had the wealth, power, and leisure to conceptualize themselves as autonomous beings exercising their will through individual agency and choice.

What embodiment secures is not the distinction between male and female or between humans who can think and machines which cannot. Rather, embodiment makes clear that thought is a much broader cognitive function depending for its specificities on the embodied form enacting it.

Ceea ce încercau, în schimb, să facă poeţii şi pictorii japonezi se poate ilustra excelent printr-o anecdotă celebră. Se spune că într-o zi un mare general, îmbrăcat într-o armură strălucitoare, aştepta o vizita. Fu informat că urma să vină cineva care nu trebuia să-i vadă îmbrăcat în armură, aşa că îşi trase pe el în grabă o mantie uşoară de mătase albă. Efectul dat de sclipirea armurii lustruite prin mătasea subţire este cel spre care năzuiau poeţii. Scriitorii japonezi n-au dorit niciodată să descrie întreaga măreţie a generalului cu armură, nici toată frumuseţea unei zile de primăvară. Ei au preferat să vorbească despre sclipirile metalului, sau despre înflorirea unei singure flori, făcîndu-ne astfel pe noi să ne imaginăm restul întregului din care s-au distilat aceste citeva picături.

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