Category Archives: technology

Lies My Twitter-Box Told Me

August 27, 2009 – 2:21 pm

As Americans, we’re the most blogginist, most tweetinist varmints to ever grace this dying planet; inheritors of the Industrial, Green and technological revolutions that have largely passed by the majority of the world’s poor, non-tweeting population, we’ve reaped the benefits of “progress” such that the sheer amount of information at our fingertips would make us [...]

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N. KY Hospital Gets Gyno-bots. Really.

July 24, 2009 – 11:38 am

It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are … receiving better care!

St. Elizabeth Healthcare announced Wednesday that it has purchased the Intuitive Surgical da Vinci S Surgical System for minimally invasive surgical procedures … The [...]

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Killer Robots With A Conscience

May 19, 2009 – 11:15 am

In what can only turn out to be another step toward future enslavement at the hands of Intel-powered overlords, here’s this:

Ronald Arkin, a professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, is in the first stages of developing an “ethical governor,” a package of software and hardware that tells robots when and what to fire. His [...]

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I’ll Take “Cybernetic Overlords” For $800 Please…

April 27, 2009 – 10:51 am

I think we all knew that the enslavement and subsequent destruction of humankind at the hands of a robotic master race would, on some level, involve Alex Trebek:

I.B.M. … is in the final stages of completing a computer program to compete against human “Jeopardy!” contestants. If the program beats the humans, the field of artificial [...]

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Attack of the Worms!

March 31, 2009 – 11:30 am

Egads! There’s an AP article hosted over at the C-J that portends total internet Armageddon tomorrow, which also happens to be April Fool’s Day. Although it could be a simple ploy to scare people back into the habit of reading newspapers, we’re going to assume it’s real.
Here’s how it’s supposed to work: If your computer [...]

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