Entries tagged with: Robots
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I'm Just a Love Machine
Artifice and Consent in the Age of Robotics The notion of robot love has a long history, and by far the dominant emphasis has been on its erotic manifestation. After all, the reasoning goes, a sufficiently advanced robot would offer...
CRUSH ALL HU-MANS (aka, the Robot Economy)
The Huffington Post, a well-known news/blogging site, has just started a new thing: HuffPost Live, a 12 hour/day streaming video program. It seems to cover a fairly wide array of topics, but with the kind of pop-politics, pop-technology slant...
New Legacies
One of my favorite posts from my time here at Open the Future has to be Legacy Futures, from late 2008. The concept of a legacy future is simple: it's a persistent but outdated vision of the future that distorts...
The Pink Collar Future
The claim that robots are taking our jobs has become so commonplace of late that it's a bit of a cliché. Nonetheless, it has a strong element of truth to it. Not only are machines taking "blue collar" factory...
Homesteading a Society of Mind
Scientific American reports about research done at Cornell's Computational Synthesis Laboratory intended to give robot minds a degree of "self-awareness." The initial version gave the robot a way of watching and analyzing its own body, so that it could more...
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