Articles in category 'Science Fiction'

WHERE’S THE HEAD, HANSON?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE’S THE HEAD!??
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By Ben, 10/29/2008, 1:25 am o'clock

Everyone knows Marvin from the hit radio and book series the ‘Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ as the most depressing cybernetic creature in the entire Universe. What most people don’t know though is that he released two vinyl albums about himself.
http://thebigcdomain.com/media/marvin.html

By Ben, 5/13/2008, 11:55 pm o'clock

By Ben, 4/2/2008, 4:43 am o'clock

“Klaatu barada nikto” The Day The Earth Stood Still is a 1951 Science Fiction Classic! An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) … all » land their spacecraft on cold war Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message for the planet which Klaatu wishes to tell […]

By Ben, 9/27/2007, 12:08 am o'clock

Philip K. Dick never saw “Blade Runner,” the first Hollywood adaptation of his writing. He died just four months shy of its release in 1982. His grieving daughter Isa, then 15, remembers going to see the opening. It was a bruising fiasco. There were two people in the theater. Dick’s family assumed that the late […]

By Ben, 9/16/2007, 10:16 am o'clock

Steve Omohundro is president of Self-Aware Systems, which has a goal of developing AI systems that understand their own behavior and work to improve themselves. Steve was featured at the Singularity Summit 2007 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco last week.
Check out this ZDNet podcast interview and check the other links for […]

By Ben, 9/16/2007, 4:02 am o'clock

©2007
Toro ducked diagonally passing the katana through the devil’s kneck opening its throat up onto the vehicle’s windshield. Blue fluid streamed profusely from the gashed electronic trachea of the killbot as the metallic corpse threw itself thrasing to the ground in an utter panic. “I will melt you” the robot echoed coldly from its center […]

By Ben, 8/12/2007, 7:25 pm o'clock

http://www.singinst.org
“In the coming decades, humanity will likely create a powerful AI. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence exists to confront the implied challenge, both the opportunity and the risk.”

By Ben, 8/12/2007, 1:14 pm o'clock