Human Nature Is a Symphony, Technology Is Changing the Instruments
Vanderbilt Professor of History Michael Bess is the author of Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the ...Read More
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BRC to Be Site of Groundbreaking Study to Determine if DJs Are Sentient
WASHINGTON DC, May 15 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For decades scientists have debated whether DJs display signs of intelligence. This ...Read More
How Hard Is It to Be a Participant at the Smithsonian’s “No Spectators” Exhibit?
The Mission Right now the Smithsonian is holding a major exhibit of “Burning Man art” called No Spectators. Everyone is ...Read More
Paradox Is at the Heart of Human Nature
In his previous work, leading Existential Psychologist Kirk Schneider has put the experience of "awe" at the center of human ...Read More
Burning Man 2018 to Institute CAPTCHA Protocol at Gate
San Francisco, April 4 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fearing that too many ticket holders are in fact spambots, Burning Man ...Read More
How Cyborgs Replace “Stories” With “Code,” And What Happens Next
On January 6, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System sent a letter to Apple executives urging greater study into the ...Read More
Artificial Intelligence Is Just a Story, and We Can Tell a Better One
Amazon has recently confirmed reports that its home operating system "Alexa," has been spontaneously laughing for no apparent reason, occasionally ...Read More
An Empowering Robot is an Ethical Robot
The problem with the way we try to give AI ethics is that we design these ethics to work for ...Read More
Successful AI Will Usher in a New Era of Theology
For the hundreds of years that comprised the “Middle Ages,” theology was the most cherished and important intellectual discipline, the ...Read More