How Harmless Little Lies About Consciousness Add Up to Big, Scary, Dystopias About Advertising
Technology changes fast, so let’s take a moment to stop and review. Better Off a Bot Shortly before ...Read More
Posts about The Theme
Posts exploring the art theme for the event in Black Rock City.
Care to Be Human?
By John Marx
Cogito Ergo Sum In 1637, before we, as a human race, knew what a robot was (although there was the ...Read More
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
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
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
The Inscrutable Oneness of Being: Using Machine Learning on Burning Man
Have you ever “found yourself” at Burning Man? It’s a cliché, but it’s something people say, right? I wouldn’t personally ...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