Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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While the Singularity Institute is celebrating their vision on a mainstream sitcom, it's actually become a punchline...
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Stuxnet is scary, but we don't yet have clear evidence that it was the first cyber attack by a nation state.
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The robots who may assist us and take care of our basic needs in the future don't have to be humanoid to be useful. It may even be better if they're not.
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That's right, Weird Things passed a million views. Next, world conquest. Right?
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In the future, we might be putting far fewer people in jail and far more under constant surveillance. But will virtual prisons work?
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Science fiction writers who really research AI can come away with some great insights.
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Jaron Lanier went from VR pioneer to Luddite afraid of transhumanists' supposed agenda of mass dehumanization.
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While utopians dream of tomorrow's world, they often forget that we can't take anything for granted when it comes to humanity's future.
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Are public transhumanists pulling away from Kurzweil, citing him as a distraction from a much more sober and realistic community?
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A superintelligent computer would be the last invention humanity could ever want. Figuratively and literally.