Space Code Cinema 1 - January 2026
Technology and Computer Culture Newsletter
Today I share links that discusses super intelligence and the future of human development, how water influences thriving cities and a short story by Philip K. Dick.
1.0 Youtube Video: We’re Not Ready for Superintelligence
This video by AI in Context explains the ideas presented on the AI 2027 report on how superhuman AI can change human life even more profoundly than the industrial revolution.
AI in Context’ video explains the original author's scenario where an AI technology race may cause governments to loss control over earth ending human life as we know it, or how AI can be an opportunity to develop civilization in a favorable way to human beings.
It discusses how AI agent technology works and how would a decades long AI race that favors ‘success’ over safety can produce a serious threat to human life.
It also shows how international agreements can help humanity leverage AI technology without disregarding the safety of human civilization.
2.0 Water-stress, Mega Cities and Human Development
Recently I read this article that reminds me how human development is tied to water consumption and availability. Water stress may hinder the development of cities even while those cities thrive and other thriving cities which do not suffer water-stress may further their development. The hydrography of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is now more than ever a blessing.
3.0 Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick - Recommended Short Story
Beyond the Door is a great example of Philip K. Dick’s work. I have read three Philip K. Dick novels and many of his short stories. I consider Ubik to be his best novel, but I also cherish Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The short stories Beyond the Door and Adjustment Team along with Ubik are three of Philip K. Dick’s works that inspire my own literature work.
