There is (probably) no reason to fear the robot uprising. As this video from The Atlantic points out, the robots have already taken over. They currently run our communications systems, our banking systems, parts of our military and more. We’ve happily let them take over and we will continue to. In fact, as time goes on, the…
Why Do So Many Science Fiction Writers Fear Science?
Charlie Jane Anders at io9 asked an interesting question this week: “Why does science fiction portray extended human lifespans negatively?”. It is an interesting question in and of itself, but it almost immediately raised other questions for me. Specifically, how do science fiction writers treat other advances that may soon be within our grasp. Surprisingly,…
Would You Like to Be a Cyborg?
Futurists have been predicting for some time now that we will eventually be able to, literally, upload our brains to a computer. Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, predicted in June of this year that we would be able to do that by 2045 and that before the century is out our bodies would be…