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Dec 7, 2015

Life in the Robot Age: When We’re All Unemployed

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“You’ll never get a good job, son, if you’re smoking pot all the time!”

That’s a scolding you won’t hear in the future. Besides the fact that pot smokers can become president, the future will not require you to get a good job. The traditional motivation to keep your mind orderly and bourgeois will be gone, so let your mind fly its freak flag and wander the Technicolor pathways already cleared by St. John of Patmos, Salvador Dali, and Carl Sagan.

In the near future, we may all be unemployed. We are entering what is generally called the “second machine age.” And, optimistically speaking, it may become the best thing that ever happened to the human being.

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Dec 6, 2015

Bridge in a backpack

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Dec 6, 2015

Interesting Futurism Animation 6

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Dec 5, 2015

Here’s everything Microsoft got right about today’s technology back in 1999

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The future was easily predictable.

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Dec 5, 2015

Iron Man Hulkbuster costume at New York’s Comic Con

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Also you should watch Giant Fully-Mechanized Hulkbuster Toy Has a Full Iron Man Inside SDCC 2015 http://goo.gl/4KLlP1

Video courtesy Tech Insider.

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Dec 5, 2015

Everything is advancing so fast

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Dec 3, 2015

This Short Movie About An Endless Future War Looks Unspeakably Great

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Check out the trailer for The Shaman, a new short film debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival. As with a lot of short films we’ve seen lately, this has top-notch visual effects — but more than that, it looks like a thing of pure beauty. And it has an original story, with a concept I haven’t come across before.

Basically, in The Shaman, it’s 2204, and the world has been at war for 73 years. And the main character isn’t a soldier — he’s a Shaman, one of a group of people who used to be healers. But now, instead, he uses his supernatural powers to “heal” the souls of the enemy, basically helping them cross over into the afterlife. That’s what I get from the trailer, in any case. This is the work of writer/director Marco Kalantari (Ainoa).

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Dec 3, 2015

The future of intelligence: Cambridge University launches new centre to study AI and the future of humanity

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The University of Cambridge is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities and challenges to humanity from the development of artificial intelligence.

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Dec 3, 2015

Cambridge University launches £10 million AI research centre, to ‘move away from science fiction’

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What will happen when machines become smarter than us?

It used to be a question purely for science fiction writers, but with experts predicting human-level AI could become a reality within this century, it’s become a pressing issue for scientists and philosophers, as they try to predict how our world will change.

Keen not to be left behind, Cambridge University has been at the forefront of the issue, and today announced the launch of a brand new centre, dedicated to answering the very real questions once seen solely as the preserve of Doctor Who or Stanley Kubrick’s HAL.

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Dec 2, 2015

A VOID Special Request

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlqpdzavDGY

Enos came to us with a very special request…

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