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Consider this scenario: America sends a daring young astronaut, the cream of the crop of military pilots (immortalized in the book and movie entitled ‘The Right Stuff’), the best among the best, in a space ship to outer space at a cost of billions of dollars in today’s money; agains...
The upshot of the essay was that we should reframe the question away from who would “win” a war. By deriving lessons from wars around the world, the one thing that we can be absolutely certain of is that a second civil war here would be devastating for everyone. Whatever resentments p...
this is a key time to understand the dynamics of these microbially-driven processes as well as whether there is a way to counteract the resulting negative consequences. By
the case of social robots, whose task is, inter alia, to build emotional ties with the user (e.g. in the case of accompanying robots caring for elderly or sick people) this seems to be a key element [84], although until now it has not been clearly established whether it is necessary...
sound of one’s voice, odor and taste, being a causal agent, a social being and of a certain gender, to name some aspects. Other investigators recently have also emphasized the diverse set of phenomena that fall under the umbrella of “self.”Samuels (1986)identified 11 potential bases for...
The first is accretion. A product such as an iPhone represents the accumulation of many different technologies, including microchips, programming languages, gyroscopes, cameras, touchscreens and lithium ion batteries, just to name a few. As we figure out more tasks an iPhone can perform, more tec...