iKnow! therefore I am.

Konnichiwa. Watashi wa okashii gaijin. I work for Cerego – the company behind Smart.fm – and I spend most of my waking (and sleeping) hours dreaming up new ideas to improve this service, so please give me a SHOUT if you have any suggestions and I’ll see what I can do.

If you are enjoying Smart.fm! so far, just wait until you see some of the new features we are working on. I believe that open standards and open content, combined with an increasingly semantic web built from the bottom up, is the future of the web, and I promise to do everything in my power to help evolve our service in this direction.

Well, have fun and learn, learn, learn…

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More about me…

I am an Omnologist, a Futurist and a Singularitarian.

To learn more about Futurism and the Singularity, check out some of my links.

To learn moe about Omnology… well, I think it is best described in the words of Howard Bloom, the man who coined the term:

“We are blessed with a richness of specializations, but cursed with a paucity of panoptic disciplines—categories of knowledge that concentrate on seeing the pattern that emerges when one views all the sciences at once. Hence we need a field dedicated to the panoramic, an academic base for the promiscuously curious, a discipline whose mandate is best summed up in a paraphrase of the poet Andrew Marvel: “Let us roll all our strength and all Our knowledge up into one ball, And tear our visions with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.”

Omnology is a science, but one dedicated to the biggest picture conceivable by the minds of its practitioners. Omnology will use every conceptual tool available — and some not yet invented but inventible — to leapfrog over disciplinary barriers, stitching together the patchwork quilt of science and all the rest that humans can yet know. If one omnologist is able to perceive the relationship between pop songs, ancient Egyptian graffiti, Shirley MacLaine’s mysticism, neurobiology, and the origins of the cosmos, so be it. If another uses mathematics to probe traffic patterns, the behavior of insect colonies, and the manner in which galaxies cluster in swarms, wonderful. And if another uses introspection to uncover hidden passions and relate them to research in chemistry, anthropology, psychology, history, and the arts, she, too, has a treasured place on the wild frontiers of scientific truth — the terra incognita in the heartland of omnology.

Let me close with the words of the great poet William Blake, on the ultimate goal of Omnology:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”

My Links:
The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
A link for those of you, who like me, are promiscuously curious
Accelerating Studies Foundation
Ray Kurzweil’s Site on Technology, Accelerating Change, Futurism and beyond