I want a care robot for my old age. I don’t mean those fake animals and devices that coo at you to take your meds, like The New York Times wrote about recently. Those sound patronizing and highly annoying. What … Continue reading
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The starstream is beautiful. But beauty turns deadly when an ancient and destructive AI uses it to travel uptime…
Continue readingSunborn The Chaos Chronicles 4 by Jeffrey A. Carver Stars are dying. Bandicut and his friends must learn what threatens the Starmaker Nebula–and confront a billion-year-old adversary of life as they know it. John Bandicut and his companions are summoned … Continue reading
Could a computer run the United States? Let’s suppose we’re not that far off from this. I probably won’t be alive and neither will Donald Trump (fortunately) but it could happen. (Consider WestWorld—or is it Disney World?) Today’s political arena … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough This movie came out in 1999, and I am sorry to report that I only saw it last fall. It is fairly faithfully based upon the award-winning novella from 1976 that we probably all have read, … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough My son, a considerable movie and TV fan, distinguishes between science fiction movies and movies that are SFnal — with all the trappings of SF, but not actually in the genre. He maintains for instance that … Continue reading
Science fiction writers have been following – or deliberately rejecting – Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics since he first wrote about them in the 1940s. But now that we live in a world where robots are vacuuming our floors … Continue reading
By Brenda W. Clough I do not usually go for the kind of movie in which the salient feature is explosions, mayhem, or things being crushed. These things are like capers, in cooking, or decollettage, in fashion — to be … Continue reading
Every once in a while I like to check in with the Singularity; see where we’re at with it. Today I checked out Honda’s Asimo. That’s Asimo over there on the left. Pretty impressive walking up and down stairs like … Continue reading
From the military’s powered exoskeletons to prosthetic devices for sufferers of locked-in syndrome, you just know brain-to-machine technology is coming. Fans of Ironman wait impatiently. According to a 2008 Wired article, though, it may be a while yet. Back then … Continue reading