Monday, May 19, 2008

FUTURE

Future technologies.

271 was a basis to form good decsisions for the future. the future however is unknown.

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it!"- Allan Kay.

Robotics.
Asimo - Honda Motor company.
Artificial people has been going for a while.
Roboter - czech "slave labour."

Leonnardo Da vinici contemplated the idea of a humanoid machine
However, non human robotics has shown more sucess (Robustness+Performance.)
MIT robostrider - robotic strider (walks on water.)

IT's 2.007 Annual Mechanical Engineering Robot Contest.

SRL (Survival Research Laboratories.) - performance art by robots - Industrial robot fights.
-Robot wars.
-Junkyard battles.

Robotlab "Jukebots" 2001.
"bios {bible}" 2007
Both blur human - robot relation ship.

Stlarc
"Third Hand" 1981 - We have never had a mind of our own. Our bodies are manipulators. - Zombies + Cyborgs.

Tissue,Culture and art project.
"Disembodied Cuisine" - frog steak, Seperate death from meat.
www.tca.uwa.edu.au

Eduardo Kac - "Alba"
Fluoroescent Rabbit. - How to we deal with life in this form?

Science Ficton.
-traced back AGES.
Mark Shelley (Frankenstein 1818)
Jules Verne
H G Wells
Issace Asimov
Robert A. Heinlein
Arthur C. Clarke
Willam Gibson
Neal Stephenson

2001 space odyssey - Blindly developing technology + dangers.

-Fear of AI has diminished.

New Fear?
-advances in artificial life.
-Artifical intelligence is now organic.

-Star Trek - We copy ideas from it. (palm sized, universal translator, non needle injections.)

- COmplex interplay between science + Science fiction.

"Any sufficiently sophisticated technology is indisinguishable from magic."

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