When robots are given control over weapons and dealing death, we have moved onto the slippery slope to Skynet. Machines have no conscience. Then again, neither do Capitalists. But at least people might have family who could persuade them of their evil acts and stop them. What does a machine care? Reading that passage, it […]
Life is already imitating art as drones begin to play a greater role in our daily lives. Small commercial drones are one thing, but when the big boys of the military get involved, these unmanned vehicles, both land-based and airborne, become very serious kit indeed. Currently, both the USA and Russia lead the way in […]
The future is exciting. The future is scary. Our rush to embrace complex IT processes is almost complete. We desire a life of leisure where robots and technology do all the work. Yet it appears that as we improve computer systems the benefits to humanity are marginal. Mobile phones, for example, were supposed to make […]
There is much debate about the way our societies are progressing in terms of technology. Are we rushing headlong into a humanitarian disaster, or are we over-analyzing everything as we did with the arrival of the millennium – remember how everything was rumoured to shut down with apocalyptic consequences? The following video gives us a […]
We’ve seen them in Star Wars as they stomped through the forests of Endor where the Ewok lived, as Luke and Hans fought to save the galaxy, the one that is far, far, away. Walker transports were once confined to the realms of fiction, but now have found their way into reality. The Russians have […]
In this presentation, Jay Tuck speaks about the rise in AI (artificial intelligence) and its destructive potential. We have all seen the movies about what will happen when machines gain power over us. Although the film industry does exaggerate the various scenarios from Terminator to Demon Seed, all the better to wow us, the eventualities […]
The Fear Index by Robert Harris [Please note, spoilers abound in this review] Dr Alex Hoffman is a genius. He was a former employee of the CERN research project before a psychological breakdown caused him to switch careers. Hoffman used his mathematical prowess to design a more independent and self-learning algorithm that could be […]
Dark Matter by Greg Iles This is a high octane ride through the world of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and deals with the pros and cons of progressing too far too quickly in this field. As we become more fully immersed in the world of the internet, and as our western societies depend evermore completely upon […]
This brief look into the future of our planet, and species, is intriguing for all that it doesn’t tell us. It’s impossible to say what will happen to us as we are an extremely unpredictable bunch, apart from our relentless greed that is. The video doesn’t pretend to know what will happen in the distant […]
Rebel Voice 