http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/ A not-so-Vast Active Living Intelligence System en-GB Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:09:38 +0000 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Frolix_8http://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/H0BR2zEOz8I/w-5.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/11/w-5.html James P. Crow - "I suspect the wheeled robots and their supporters will protest outside the venues for the competitions." Progeny - "You don't talk to the boss on a Droid, the phone is your boss. " --- Dick-Headline ---...

James P. Crow - "I suspect the wheeled robots and their supporters will protest outside the venues for the competitions."

Progeny - "You don't talk to the boss on a Droid, the phone is your boss. "

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The real-life "Men Who Stare at Goats" were even weirder

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]]> Books Current Affairs Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:09:38 +0000 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/11/w-5.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/1vEKMBtEhEA/w-4.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/11/w-4.html Yes, it's Dark-Haired Girl Day. Time Out of Joint - "The escape from reality into the fantasy of the rides no longer stopped when the rides ended." A Scanner Darkly - "There have been prior clues that creativity benefits from...

Yes, it's Dark-Haired Girl Day.

Time Out of Joint - "The escape from reality into the fantasy of the rides no longer stopped when the rides ended."

A Scanner Darkly - "There have been prior clues that creativity benefits from ample cross-talk between the brain hemispheres."

The Electric Ant - "Why shouldn't we, the human race as a whole, build machines to do the hard work we need done, and spend our time enjoying the resulting wealth?"

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U.S. Braces For Angry Robot Invasion

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]]> Books Current Affairs Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:27:04 +0000 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/11/w-4.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/gUVB_GFtT1k/w-3.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/11/w-3.html Go AdFreak The Commuter - "Google and the company that supplies its mapping data are unable to explain the presence of the phantom town and are investigating." The Impossible Planet - "". . .the long-term potential of robotics to extend...

Go AdFreak

The Commuter - "Google and the company that supplies its mapping data are unable to explain the presence of the phantom town and are investigating."

The Impossible Planet - "". . .the long-term potential of robotics to extend independent living is profound."

Foster, You're Dead! - "Now picture them after two weeks in a space so small that nobody can stand up and only one person can lie down at a time."

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]]> Books Current Affairs Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:56:18 +0000 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/11/w-3.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/zRkA6y1Pxac/w-2.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/11/w-2.html VALIS - "So could you be zapped with a mood-altering blast from across a room?" A Scanner Darkly - "[CCTV] is partly designed to reduce fear of crime ... this study demonstrates that in certain contexts it can have the...

VALIS - "So could you be zapped with a mood-altering blast from across a room?"

A Scanner Darkly - "[CCTV] is partly designed to reduce fear of crime ... this study demonstrates that in certain contexts it can have the opposite effect."

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? - "Now watch the following video, and see how well robots do in interpreting human gestures and how well the humans do in interpreting robot gestures."

Ubik - "The idea is pretty simple, knock in a certain pattern and the door unlocks."

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All Your Characters Talk The Same — And They're Not A Hivemind!

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Faith Of Our Fathers - "While you ate, you could watch videos of Supreme Master Ching Hai, who, as I recall mentioned that she had come from the past."

The Ganymede Takeover - "During their stay, guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and travel around the world every 80 minutes."

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Found: Game Show From the Future

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]]> Books Current Affairs Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:25:28 +0000 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/11/w-1.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/ACZoLmBncME/which-pkd-story-were-we-in-yesterday-.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/11/which-pkd-story-were-we-in-yesterday-.html Borked yesterday's post, sorry. Here it is again. A Scanner Darkly - "In all my twenty years of law enforcement I have never seen a person who has smoked marijuana to be in a condition of staggering, slobbering, and throwing...

Borked yesterday's post, sorry. Here it is again.

A Scanner Darkly - "In all my twenty years of law enforcement I have never seen a person who has smoked marijuana to be in a condition of staggering, slobbering, and throwing up. Too many times, however, I have seen booze drinkers in such a condition, and much worse."

The Gun - ". . .we take no responsibility for anything."

The Hanging Stranger - "The remains of the partially-skeletonized body will be examined Sunday, said medical examiner's investigator Korletta Howrish, and until then it's not clear how old the man was or his ethnicity."

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Robots, drugs, reality and education: How the future will change how we think

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