Representations of AI in Popular Culture
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g-speak overview. Minority report user interface in action.
radically condensed demonstration of oblong's g-speak spatial operating environment The most amazing technology demonstration I have seen in awhile. User interface of the Minority Report demonstrated in practice...
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CrunchGear » Archive » Oblong’s g-speak spatial operating interface brings Minority Report UI to life
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo. After having seen the above video you will undoubtedly make direct comparisons to what was seen in ...
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Six Real Gadgets Minority Report Predicted Correctly | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
The future-predicting technology that drives the premise of the sci-fi blockbuster Minority Report is silly at best. And when the film hit theaters in 2002, the gadgets seemed pretty unrealistic,
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The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Bruce Sterling - “The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole”
Singularity proponents, Sterling observed, are organized pretty much like virus writers—loose association, passionate focus, but basically gentle. (They’d be easily rounded up.) “They don’t have to work very hard because they are mesmerized by the autocatalyzing cascade effect. ‘Never mind ...
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A Definition of Cyborg Anthropology
Public Bookmark added by Josh Dilworth on 08/27/2008A cyborg (shorthand for “cybernetic organism”) is a symbiotic fusion of human and machine. Humans have always developed technologies to help them survive and thrive, but in recent decades the rapid escalation and intensification of the human-technology interface have exceede...
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Review: The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod | Books | The Guardian
Review: The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
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Cell phone tech for swarm robots | Planetary Gear: a CNET blog on mechanical engineering technology - CNET News
University students in the U.K. think small--and dial into big savings for robotics researchers. Read this blog post by Candace Lombardi on Planetary Gear.
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Neatorama » Blog Archive » Back to the Future Hoverboard Auction
Remember the Mattel Hoverboard used by Marty McFly (played by Michael J. Fox) in Back to the Future Part II and III? The movie prop is being auctioned off on eBay: This is one of the hero Mattel Hoverboards used by Michael J. Fox in his most famous role as “Marty McFly” in the Robert Zemeckis ...
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AI in GTA IV: Nothing Spectacular | AI Panic!
Public Bookmark added by Josh Dilworth on 07/07/2008I've written about AI in video games and their real-life impact a while ago, with the conclusion that it is quite basic and does not really contain
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Missing scenes from Fritz Lang's Metropolis turn up after 80 years | News | guardian.co.uk Film
The cinematic world was today celebrating the rediscovery of missing scenes from German director Fritz Lang's legendary silent film Metropolis - thought lost for 80 years, until they were found in the archive of a museum in Argentina.