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Sigmund – my fake AI friend

Sigmund – my fake AI friend

What if we concieve robots as humans, because we can’t tell them apart from us? Science-fiction literature has long played with this theme. It appears for example in the figure of R. Daneel Olivaw (R standing for “Robot”) from Isaac Asimov’s...
No shortcuts to be a badass

No shortcuts to be a badass

Matrix is the Genesis movie of our times. One fascinating thread is how Trinity and Neo become true badasses. While in the real world their skills need to be learned and earned, their performance in the virtual Matrix can increase in seconds. An ‘operator’...
In the future, we can’t read.

In the future, we can’t read.

“By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments. By the Hegira, ninety-eight percent of the...