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Transhumanism is a common theme in comic books. But which one of the scenarios they present has the most scientific merit?
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Michio Kaku talks quantum computing at Big Think. It doesn't go well. It doesn't go well at all.
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Newspapers are still on the warpath against bloggers and it's not working out for them.
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Philosopher Nick Bostrom is still barking up the same, fundamentally wrong tree of emergent super-intelligence.
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"Listen, sometimes I just get the urge to kill all humans. You know?"
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There's a reason why we can see and understand things robots can't, and that reason might be a cluster of neurons known as V4.
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Watson can easily win a trivia contest, but it needs to play anyway to learn how to talk to humans.
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Time gives the Singularity and its prophet the kid glove treatment, glossing over the scientific and technical issues with a wave of starry eyed credulity.
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The internet kill switch bill is back and its author and sponsors have learned absolutely nothing about how the technology works.
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There's a good case for trying to bring the developing world online, but it's going to be hard to get today's financial gatekeepers to sign on to such a project.
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It's hard to understate just how ambitious a project to visit another star would have to be in order to truly succeed.
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The internet may have broadened our horizons, but it hasn't changed how we think about sex. With maybe one exception...
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No, the internet isn't about to gain sentience and become a globe-spanning hivemind.
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The tech industry didn't suddenly start promising disruptive revolutions with every new gadget and app. It's been doing that since its first days.
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The best way to make robots move may be to just let them figure out how to do it.
