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  Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ Magazine

  Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix When surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, ...

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  iRobot Unveils Morphing Blob Robot (w/ Video)

  iRobot Unveils Morphing Blob Robot (w/ Video) The blob bot uses a jamming mechanism to change its shape and roll, enabling it to squeeze into small spaces. Credit: iRobot. (PhysOrg.com) -- iRobot's latest robot is unique on many levels. The doughy blob moves by inflating and deflating - a ...

  Nova Spivack added 8 weeks ago

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  Yale Daily News - FEAR THE SINGULARITY

  FEAR THE SINGULARITY Coffee was our sole objective as we slunk and scuttled into the 92nd Street Y, in New York, last Saturday at 7 a.m. Trembling with anticipation, we had arrived almost a full hour early to the fourth annual Singularity Summit. We had hoped for an empty lobby and untouched ...

  shal added 8 weeks ago

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  Slashdot Games Story | Experimental Video Game Evolves Its Own Content

  This is actually what I've wished for long time that MMO's would have. For example in WoW, once you've seen one place it will always be like that. It would be great to have kind of an ecosystem which would evolve on its own and when players help (or destroy) it. For example, there would be ...

  Nova Spivack added 5 months ago

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  Gallery: Domestic robots with a taste for flesh - tech - 25 June 2009 - New Scientist

  Futuristic-looking robots like Honda's sleek humanoid Asimo don't cut it for designer James Auger , at the Royal College of Art, London. Believing that they need to fit unobtrusively into the home, he has built robotic furniture. And, believing they need to be useful and entertaining, he has ...

  Nova Spivack added 5 months ago

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