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Reason
June 2000
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Joy, to the World A techno-celebrity's childish manifesto - Wired Magazine's hype machine came roaring back with the April cover story--a long, long, long think piece by the hip software genius Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems.   |
Wired
April 2000
Bill Joy |
Why the future doesn't need us. Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009 |
The Singularity Is Coming--Now What? For some time now, futurists have been talking about a concept called the Singularity, a technological jump so big that society will be transformed. |
Wired
July 2000 |
Rants & Raves Bill Joy's cover story on the dangers posed by developments in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics ("Why the Future Doesn't Need Us," Wired 8.04) struck a deep cultural nerve. Instantly. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erik Sofge |
The 8 Evil Forms of AI That Gave Robots a Bad Name It's not the hardware but the software that turns machines into monsters. Here is a timeline with the most iconic examples of malevolent artificial intelligence in movies and the fears each inspired. |
Technology Research News
May 18, 2005
Eric Smalley |
Machine Reproduces Itself Researchers have built simple modular robots that are capable of reproducing themselves. The robots consist of motorized cubes that can swivel diagonally and connect to each other. |
Chemistry World
November 2008
Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible Nanotech has some iconic images based on actual experiments, but popular accounts are more often accompanied by stock images like the microsyringe, showing 'a world that might be there in the future but probably never will'. They come from the tradition of utopian science fiction. |
Reason
March 2008
Todd Seavey |
Neither Gods Nor Goo Avoiding both Utopian and apocalyptic forecasts for nanotechnology. |
Salon.com
January 2, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
The emotional machine Steve Grand, designer of the artificial life program Creatures, talks about the stupidity of computers, the role of desire in intelligence and the coming revolution in what it means to be "alive." |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2015
Baratunde Thurston |
Do Not Fear The Robot Apocalypse We don't need to imagine a future filled with human suffering at the (liquid metal) hands of supersmart robots. Many are suffering now at the hands of their fellow humans. |
PC World
October 2, 2006
Eric Butterfield |
The Future of Robots Tomorrow's domestic help at your service. |
Salon.com
February 25, 2002
John Glassie |
Flesh, robots and God Are they becoming us or are we becoming them? One of the world's leading roboticists discusses the machines in our future -- their ability to think, feel, reproduce and achieve personhood... |
Fast Company
April 2006 |
Oy, Robot! Are we doomed to some post-apocalyptic nightmare in which robots rule the planet? Roboticists Henrik Hautop Lund and Rodney Brooks square off. |
National Defense
January 2016
Sandra I. Erwin |
The Rise of the Machines? ... Not So Fast Robots working in tandem with troops are said to be the next big thing in defense technology. |
