If you need some new fodder for your nightmares about robot uprisings, there’s a couple projects coming soon to the small and large screens. Online network YOMYOMF is debuting a series called “dr0ne” this August about a humanoid military robot that goes rouge and must be hunted down by the army. Coming soon to theaters, meanwhile, The Prototype features a runaway humanoid robot that must be hunted down by shadowy government agents. I’m sure both projects will try to teach lessons about what it means to be human or pose great moral questions about humankind’s relationship with machines, but I’m mostly interested in the hunting down of rampaging robots. 

In Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity in Near, a computer avatar named Ramona becomes self-aware and learns about being human from Tony Robbins. I’m pretty sure that’s how David from Prometheus got to be so creepy weird. 

When the Singularity has upgraded us all into cyborgs, we’ll never go thirsty thanks to science.

fastcompany:

Its solution, called the Hydrolemic system, involves both harvesting more moisture from the air than our current un-modified bodies are capable of, and also doing more to retain the water we have. The company imagines that system would require us to drink .1 cups of water a day.

The Water Bottle Of The Future: A Cyborg System That Keeps You From Needing To Drink

Because who doesn’t want to have a telepresence robot mounted on their shoulder? 

New recruitment posters for Singularity University.

(h/t itcamefromouterspace and c86)