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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...

Neuro

It will happen some day. It is inevitable. In the near future, someone will decide to record every moment of a human life from birth to death in...

Toys & Tools

You thought your Bluetooth headset gave you that certain je ne sais quoi cyberlook — perhaps like Captain Jean-Luc Picard of ...

Politics

Korea?! Are you scoffing? Readers, when you spied my headline did you think, “Mr. Hyena’s insane! Korea’s not a superpower...

Bio

Color blindness affects some eight percent of males, and the most common form is the inability to distinguish between red and green.

Enhanced

If you want to see the future debate over human enhancement, look no further than today’s sports. The modern athlete is a highly-enhanced...

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