TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
OK, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first? The good news? OK, no problem. You know that old anti-war cliché about “Suppose They Gave A War And No One Came“? Well that slogan might be closer to becoming reality than you think. Exhibit A: This story from Japan Read More…
Armed with a budget of over $700 billion for the coming year – which will likely continue to grow over the course of Trump’s Pentagon-controlled presidency — the Pentagon’s dystopian vision for the future of the military is quickly becoming a question not of if but when. WASHINGTON – While cyborg soldiers and fully automated weapons Read More…
The Corbett Report community held a vigorous discussion on the future of Artificial Intelligence this past summer, and the results are in: No one understands the question (myself included). Now, to be fair, I didn’t do a very good of framing the debate so, as is typical with this particular topic, it quickly became the standard AI Read More…
—Notes on media invention— —Notes on interviewees who try to appear normal on television and who are bizarre to the nth degree. These interviewees are so bizarre, in part, because they ARE trying to appear normal— I wrote this Sandy Hook article in 2013. It’s about the soap opera called television. I’ve added some new Read More…
The evolution of humanoid robots is well into the concerning stage at this point. DARPA’s latest incarnation of its Atlas robot is seen in the following video beginning to walk at a pace with a sense of balance equal to most humans. Strangely, toward the end of the video, it is being “abused” by its Read More…
Robots with a sense of humor? Robots that can appreciate the finer things in life? Robots that have a wide range of ’emotions’ that would make them relatable to human beings? Reading the title, one would think that the whole matter is a hoax, or something out of a science fiction novel that can hardly be Read More…