I just think the following is the best MSNBC web article title ever:
Robot Warriors Will Get Ethics Guide
And Scientific American has a really good article by Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things:
Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World
Showing posts with label technology and the future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology and the future. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Important Presidential Update: Obama is Keeping his BlackBerry!
on John King's new CNN Sunday show, "State of the Union" today:
Good for you, Mr. Soon-President. Bring us into the 21st century, in yet another sense.
KING: Well, actually, one last question. And it's, in part, silly. But it's not always silly. You like these [holding up BlackBerry]. I was just with you before this, and you have a couple of them. And there are a lot of people who say, because this will end up in the presidential library, because you don't have privacy any more, your life's about to change.
Tuesday noon, you have to give this up.
OBAMA: Yes.
KING: You going to do it?
OBAMA: I think we're going to be able to beat this back.
KING: Beat this back?
OBAMA: I think we're going to be able to hang onto one of these. Now...
KING: Do you want mine?
(LAUGHTER)
OBAMA: My -- my working assumption, and this is not new, is that anything I write on an e-mail could end up being on CNN. So I make sure to -- to think before I press "send."
But what this has been -- what this does is -- and it's just one tool among a number of tools that I'm trying to use, to break out of the bubble, to make sure that people can still reach me, that if I'm doing something stupid, somebody in Chicago can send me an e-mail and say, "What are you doing?" You know? Or "you seem detached" or "you're not listening to what is going on here in the neighborhood."
I want to be able to have voices, other than the people who are immediately working for me, be able to reach out and -- and send me a message about what's happening in America.
Good for you, Mr. Soon-President. Bring us into the 21st century, in yet another sense.
Monday, November 17, 2008
OK, in case there had ever been any question...
... I can now say for certain that I never want to be president.
No e-mail for 4-8 years? An anachronistic Luddite deprivation for which the most powerful position in the free world would offer little consolation ;)
Obama faces the loss of his beloved BlackBerry.
No e-mail for 4-8 years? An anachronistic Luddite deprivation for which the most powerful position in the free world would offer little consolation ;)
Obama faces the loss of his beloved BlackBerry.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Google-head: The Atlantic Asks...
... Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Umm, maybe... although I think, in reference to one of the author's points about ever-changing technologies, the emergence of the computer keyboard with easy delete key is probably an improvement over the typewriter with regard to fluid thinking... certainly with regard to editing (and, yes, verbosity.)
But, sure, I plead guilty to increased stupidity, and I blame no one but Google. But I'm glad it's not just me.
The article was also interesting for its discussion of the impact of the mechanical clock (I've never been a fan.)
And finally, it was enlightening to learn the extent of Google's ambitions... Much as I love Google, it's a wee bit scary to think that their long-term business plan may be to implant their product in our brains, or even supplant our brains with it... Not sure how I feel about that one.
Umm, maybe... although I think, in reference to one of the author's points about ever-changing technologies, the emergence of the computer keyboard with easy delete key is probably an improvement over the typewriter with regard to fluid thinking... certainly with regard to editing (and, yes, verbosity.)
But, sure, I plead guilty to increased stupidity, and I blame no one but Google. But I'm glad it's not just me.
The article was also interesting for its discussion of the impact of the mechanical clock (I've never been a fan.)
And finally, it was enlightening to learn the extent of Google's ambitions... Much as I love Google, it's a wee bit scary to think that their long-term business plan may be to implant their product in our brains, or even supplant our brains with it... Not sure how I feel about that one.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Monday, August 13, 2007
Friday, June 01, 2007
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
I'm a sucker for anthropomorphicized robot buddy stories
Robots in Iraq
(this blog's first and perhaps only post to get both the war tag and the warm and fuzzy tag.)
(this blog's first and perhaps only post to get both the war tag and the warm and fuzzy tag.)
Monday, October 16, 2006
And because it's Sweden Week in Blogland...
... and also because I haven't filled my quota of news about the future, (it takes longer on the wires) look what else those Swedes have been up to while we weren't looking: a self-assembling cottage on the moon.
"We know where the Americans want to land people in 2020... It would be nice if we had a house for them when they come," Mikael Genberg said.
Wishful thinking?
Seriously, though, this is pretty cool.
"But when we put this house on the Moon, which is a kind of Swedish endeavour right now, we want to make it an international symbol... it will represent the position of our own planet in the universe, like a fragile thing."
"We know where the Americans want to land people in 2020... It would be nice if we had a house for them when they come," Mikael Genberg said.
Wishful thinking?
Seriously, though, this is pretty cool.
"But when we put this house on the Moon, which is a kind of Swedish endeavour right now, we want to make it an international symbol... it will represent the position of our own planet in the universe, like a fragile thing."
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