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Soon I will be rich. Two trends: social networking and the death of privacy. I’m cashing in on the confluence. Why should only celebrities...

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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...

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Disgracebook

Soon I will be rich. Two trends: social...

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...

Read and comment on blog posts from h+ editor RU Sirius and others.

I love trout... but now, the delicious fish is becoming just dreamy... with six-pack abs!...

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...

Certainly helps to save lives, at least of the soldiers ...........

Article: iRobot
holy moley, that is the most disgusting looking creature I've ever seen.

Article: A Studly Fish, A Powerful Bottle of Water, a Nano-Suitcase for Delivering the Drugs... and Thou. AcceleRoundup 3/12/10
Inconsistencies within SF - I totally agree! How often have I stumbled accross this, e.g. in Star Trek. With Star Trek I have often asked myself...

Article: Kurzweil on Avatar
A robot that can really see seems a little like a science fiction movie. Thank you for your detailed explanation. You have done a great job with...

Article: Oh, Those Robot Eyes!