Welcome

This is my first blog. I start it in English, to reach a broader audience. Not that I think that many people will pay attention, but anyway.
My interest in Artificial Intelligence has been there since more than twenty years. I got Douglas Hofstadter book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" for Abitur, when I left school. All German/Dutch thinkers, as i find out now that i write english.
Recently, i read a couple of books that helped me to build my ideas what to do about it once i had the time for it: will tell you about this later.
steve grand, "life and how to make it"
stephen wolfram, "a new kind of science"
some standard literature about cell biology
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until now, i tried to give priority to my interest without success. when you have a family and just bought a house, the economical pressure is just to high before you let go a well-paid freelance assignment for a rather speculative hobby that might change the world one day.
I am also a great fan of SF literature, especially when it is envisioning future technologies and their possibilities and consequences. my favorite author is neal stephenson, with "diamond age" and "cryptonomicon". last holidays, i discovered alastair reynolds "century rain". lets see how the other books are that i just ordered with amazon.

let me go to bed now that i finally managed the heroic task to open a blog. lets see where this leads to. if there is anyone out there listening. bye