Feb 212012
 
DARPA’s James Cameron Mashup: Unsurprising, but Existentially Bananas

Predators and Packbots already function as primitive avatars for pilots and bomb squads, and DARPA’s new Avatar project aims to turn up the resolution. Delineating the consciousness container could get trickier…

Feb 172012
 
Japanese Technology from the Future Friday! (NEW SECTION AT ANTHROBOTIC.COM)

A: “There is a man who lives in Japan, in the future, and the J-Tech is strong with him.” B: “What? Seriously? How can that possibly work?!” A: “Japan IS in the future – it’s already tomorrow there already.” B: “Oh. My. God.”

Feb 142012
 
Technological Utopianism is Way Better than Technological Apocalypticism. Robots, Robots.

Human employment is soon going to drastically & quickly change. For sure China’s in trouble, but on the whole is this good or bad? Here a young guy says we’re doomed, and an old guy says it’s all going to be cool. Weird, right?