The future of digital media synthesis and it's implications
The Future of Digital Media Synthesis and it's Implications "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER" -Multivac, The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (1956) Twenty centuries ago, alone in the vastness of the Aegean Sea, a man named John was isolated on the island of Patmos, not far from the coast of Asia Minor. Very little is known about who John was, or why he was on this island. During this isolation John had a spiritual, pseudo-psychedelic experience that left him with a hallowing idealization of civilization's distant future. His documentation, recorded in the Book of Revelations, constitutes the last book of the Christian Bible. The cascading shoreline of Patmos Irrespective of the faith persuasion of the reader, analyzing John's accounts some might draw persuasive connections between the perspective of a first-century witness and the life we live today. For example, Revelations 13:16 describes a...