"Best?!?" Really?

Clearly these Wired Magazine people don't see what's coming....

"This may one day lead to...

...robots that can express emotion." Because, you know, I need to hear that my Roomba is annoyed that all I ever have it do is vacuum...

Check out the robot who was "self-aware." Or here.

But be forewarned...

Maybe "they" just don't see...

...bad movies?

Check out this story that seems remarkably like the movie Stealth (or at least the plot synopses for that movie, since I never saw it). Some of the comments are quite amusing too.

Where to begin?

I honestly don't remember how it got started... It may be that I started it or Huge did, or even MLW. But the fact is a few years back we started to see a disturbing trend emerging in Technology news stories. Put simply, that trend was that mankind was once again fooling around with forces beyond their understanding. Not looking at the implications of what could be done with their work (or in the MANY, MANY projects funded by DARPA, perhaps they knew and chose to ignore it...) The examples are countless: the meat-eating bot, the computer that's hooked up to the autocad machine and can build its own simple robots, the smart-dust, the various insect bots, the cybernetic fusions of machine and, say, lamprey eel brains...

You see, we're not making any of this up. It's all true. And it seems like only we can see the signs. I used to send around emails, but the stories started coming in faster than I could compile. So we decided to move to the blog format and give that a try.

"Don't you see? Someone has to save the world..."