Archives for 13 October 2007
Robots and the Coming Creation
Published on 13 Oct 2007 at 1:43 am.
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Filed under Astrobiology, Astronomy, Computation, Evolution, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Philosophy, Research, Robotics, Space, Technology.
‘Am I already in the shadow of the Coming Race? and will the creatures who are to transcend and finally supersede us be steely organisms, giving out the effluvia of the laboratory, and performing with infallible exactness more than everything that we have performed with a slovenly approximativeness and self-defeating inaccuracy?’
- George Eliot,
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Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize
Published on 13 Oct 2007 at 12:37 am.
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Filed under Climate, Green.
Today Al Gore, along with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, won the Nobel Peace Prize. Naturally, conversation has turned to whether he will run for president.
Al Gore has risen far above such a position. His world has become bigger than just America, and his role in the grand scheme of things is now [...]
