The latest issue of TIME, featuring cover story, ‘Rise of the Drones,’ will hit newsstands Friday. Read the story here.
(Cover: Dan Winters for TIME)
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Posts tagged "Rise of the machines"
Why has SETI not yet found evidence of extraterrestrials? One answer could be that organic civilizations are overrun by mechanical ones:
Because the conquest by machines might happen in less than two centuries of technological evolution, the consequences would be that there’s nobody out there for us to talk to.
(via Discovery News)
Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers
For your list of long reads: Kenneth Anderson and Matthew Waxman on how we might avoid Terminator-style Judgement Day.
Mind-Controlled Artificial Limbs Fusing Man and Machine Coming Next Year
2013 shaping up to be the Year of the Machine.
This is a robot. You can build it! And it may or may not rise up against us all.
(via RoboBrrd | Indiegogo)
Citizens of New Orleans, prepare yourselves for the rise of the machines when the Robot Parade hits the streets there on December 2!
Yet another sign that humankind’s time on this Earth is rapidly drawing to a close: TIME has nominated the Curiosity rover to be its “person” of the year!
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And the inevitable march towards full-fledged gladiatorial robot games takes a leap forward: Syfy has commissioned a new TV series called “Robot Combat League” that pits humanoid robot boxers against one another. Did someone say, “Sparticus?”
Giving thanks tomorrow that it was not a race of cyborg Pilgrims that landed on Plymouth Rock.
(via RobotsAreAwesome on Etsy)
