Key Takeaways The future often appears heavily driven by technology, but we must always consider how we, humans will feel living in that era. It might seem amusing, but pondering quirky scenarios like smelly-armpit robots can actually bring us closer to the most desirable tomorrow (and day af...
The Uncanny Valley was first proposed by Professor Emeritus Masahiro Mori as a way of pinpointing and describing when and where robots approach, but not quite achieve, humanlikeness, thereby invoking feelings of strangeness and unease [31,32]. In this work, we have considered the other half of...
I found this book in an ex-pat bar. It’s trashy and loathsome, but compulsively readable like a tabloid, and I suspect it or books like it might have influenced Lavie Tidhar’sOsama. There’s a certain type of Anglo-expat guy you meet in Asia that’s obsessed with which women are ...
“We have named it ‘Alien Artifacts,’” Swartz writes, “but actually we are using this term not so much to say that we believe that we have recovered things from ‘extraterrestrial spaceships,’ but because what we are discussing in this book is ‘alien’ as they don’t appear to ha...
(no matter how strange) is likely to be true. The emphasis is neither on debunking nor on advocating specific assertions, but on explaining principles of critical thinking that enable readers to evaluate claims for themselves. The authors focus on types of logical arguments and proofs, making "...
” That doesn’t seem true for people with enough time or money; you won’t find FamilyTreeNow CEO Dustin Weirich’s phone number on his people search site, for example. But it does suggest that future battles over online privacy may involve making personal details harder to weaponize, ...
I'm a bit swamped at the moment, but I will give Kittelsen a try and comment on it later! I'm also interested in checking out the books and stories you listed. Quote: Dale NelsonIt's not to say that, if your passion is for CAS, these would be the folktales you would like mor...
Is this story true? I’d like to think so. What does it tell us? That Sam was one lucky cat. It also says: don’t give up. Keep yourself afloat even if it feels as if the world is sinking around you. Have hope. It might not feel like much, but hope is very precious. I ha...
But I had to be responsible and only have some small pours, as there was a beer festival to manage later, and a highlight there, for both evenings, was finally meeting so many people I’d only ever known online (or by their books); everyone was truly lovely (special shoutout to Jule...
True story, y’all. Now, that I’ve graduated two homeschoolers, I feel that way about homeschooling high school, too. It terrified me. I just knew I’d screw something up beyond repair. But, you know what? Homeschooling high school wasn’t that bad. ...