I can’t blog forthrightly about the remote-control assassinations detailed this week in The New Yorker without first alerting readers to my bias — a bias that’s more about pragmatism and […]
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First off, yes, it’s entirely possible that we’ve watched too many science-fiction movies, like I, Robot and the Matrix. But a variety of new scientific innovations, particularly in the world […]
So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. To which Ernest Hemingway replied, “yes. They have more money.” Could they one day end up having more fingers? Toes? Brains? The economist Robert Frank […]
I've been thinking of different ways scientists and engineers could have prepared the world population for the extreme weather problems. By not financing weaponry but instead innovative solutions to natural disasters we could have been way ahead of the game by now.
It wasn’t greeted with the kind of fanfare it may have deserved, but five years ago when the $10-million Ansari X PRIZE was awarded, it helped usher in a new […]
A burka is visible from 20,000 feet. So is an AK-47. That is not insignificant, as the debate rages on over whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. One alternative […]
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Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics is going to have some profound consequences for business and society.
It will simplify product development, revolutionise distribution, reduce costs so much it can transform our lives. It can also help us reduce our ecological footprint dramatically.
The Golden Years are really the Platinum Years for millions of senior citizens because of the marvels of modern technology.
Peter W. Singer explains how the robotics revolution will allow generals the ability to micromanage even low-level operations.
The New York Times reports that many graduates of the nation's top law schools are having a tough time finding jobs. The chickens are coming home to roost. Law, like the automobile and other businesses, need to change its ways to adjust to the 21st century.
Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses how robotic red blood cells will aid in ending disease as we know it.
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One outstanding task on the global conversation to-do list is how to communicate across languages on all our various new media. Now, a linguistic brain trust at MIT has stepped […]
Daniel Dennett Discusses the Problem of Robotic Warfare.
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Daniel Dennett with the argument against humanoid robots.
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If you look inside each neuron in the human brain, you will find motor proteins that are a bit of mindless nano-engineering.
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Robots already play a major role in modern warfare in the form of airborne drones, but as artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated, will we have to worry about our own […]
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As I reach the halfway point of the “threescore years and ten” years that the Book of Psalms promise to let us live, it occurs to me I have spent […]
A new perspective to these times, their challenges and opportunities. ByAndy (Andres Agostini) - Ich Bin Singularitarian! High-Tech Visionary and Method Developer/Proprietor of: "Transformative And Integrative Risk Management" www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com-Arlington, Virginia, USA
Want to learn about physics? Build a robot. Want to learn about design? Start a blog. Want to learn about civics? Volunteer for a cause.
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De Pury believes there’s also an untapped market for old Japanese robots.
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