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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Didn't get enough Singularity debates on the air last time? George Dvorsky and I are back...
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The Prophet of the Singularity returns with a hopeful sermon on our impending computer-aided immortality.
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The definition of what constitutes artificial intelligence is still highly subjective.
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Computer scientist Jaron Lanier wants to you remind you not to worship technology as a panacea to all the world's ills, albeit in a very bizarre, rambling way...
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It's one thing to criticize junk science or lack of detail when it comes to transhumanism. It's something else to dismiss the entire concept based on glorified statism and fatalism.
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Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.
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Getting naked in front of digital devices with cameras as a teenage minor can become a huge legal problem. So why aren't states fixing the laws for modern times?
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Armies of smart microscopic robots roaming your bloodstream are still science fiction. But simpler beneficial nanoparticles may be coming sooner than later.
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Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. But what futurist ideas seem to be on the right track and more likely to happen than not?
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If you froze yourself in a cryogenic chamber, would anyone actually want to unfreeze you in the future?