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or Beyond Technological Smartness; or What Artificial Agents Get Up to When You Leave the Room

The following is an extract from a dialogue between Murray McKeich’s p-zombie and Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head.

Robotics

Willow Garage is organizing a workshop at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010 in San...

Tilikum the killer whale (Orcinus orca) made news recently in the tragic death of his Sea World trainer, Dawn Brancheau. Tilikum pulled...

Forever Young

8 New Rules are Life Enhancers

I’m writing the Forever young columns for transhumanists who want to live longer than the longest-lived human to date. Frenchwoman Jeanne...

Energy

Can Vancouver’s General Fusion Bring About an Energy Breakthrough?

In an unassuming corner of Burnaby, a lush, green suburb of Vancouver, BC, I’ve arrived at the doorway of a company that could potentially...

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or Beyond Technological Smartness; or What Artificial Agents Get Up to When You Leave the Room

The following is an extract from a dialogue...

Willow Garage is organizing a workshop at the...

Tilikum the killer whale (Orcinus orca)...

8 New Rules are Life Enhancers

I’m writing the Forever young columns...

Can Vancouver’s General Fusion Bring About an Energy Breakthrough?

In an unassuming corner of Burnaby, a lush,...

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Kurzweil on Avatar

How often do you get a movie review from Ray Kurzweil? In our interview with Ray a few...

Selfish or altruistic? Where does it all start? Which side are you on, boy (girl, other)? Stand...

On Monday, I got my vertiginous dose of hope from Science Daily. Today, KurzweilAI is...

Avatar was an abject failure as art, as science fiction, as story and as message.

Avatar: Jar Jar Binks Meets Pocahontas
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Article: Kurzweil on Avatar
This makes me think of the Samuel Delany's Trouble on Triton. In that future, going naked is as accepted as wearing clothes. People's choices on...

Article: Get Naked: It’s Good for Your Brain
There are a ton of great hard SF books out there today that could easily be transcribed into movie format. For example: I'd love to see a movie...

Article: Kurzweil on Avatar
i enjoyed avatar but Kurzweil is right, it is rare to find a sci-fi where the tecnology is how its actualy likly to be i the futere

Article: Kurzweil on Avatar