21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-04-01 04:56:42

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SEXBOTS (of course). "Artificial-intelligence expert and international chess champion David Levy professed that by 2050 robots “will have the capacity to fall in love with humans and to make themselves romantically attractive and sexually desirable to humans.” https://lnkd.in/dR3gNu2 View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-03-31 04:13:25

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DIRTY SECRET. "For years it has been a dirty secret that one of the key drivers of new consumer technology is sex, pornography. The need to make 3G technology work - and work fast - is exposing that secret. 'Like it or not, pornography drives each new, convenient visual technology, and 3G, which combines powerful new media applications, will be no different." https://lnkd.in/dg5RQSK View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
linkedin post 2020-03-31 04:10:22

linkedin post 2020-03-31 04:10:22

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ATLAS. "Founder of Boston Dynamics, Marc Raiber, released a video showing a terrifying six-foot tall, 320-lb. humanoid robot named Atlas, running freely in the woods. The company, which was bought by Google in 2013 and receives grant money from the Department of Defense, is working on developing an even more agile version." (2015). http://observer.com/2015/08/stephen-hawking-elon-musk-and-bill-gates-warn-about-artificial-intelligence/ View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
linkedin post 2020-04-02 02:57:32

linkedin post 2020-04-02 02:57:32

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IMPLANTS. "Eventually neural implants will make the transition from being used exclusively for severe problems such as paralysis, blindness or amnesia. They will be adopted by people with less traumatic disabilities. When the technology has advanced enough, implants will graduate from being strictly repair-oriented to enhancing the performance of healthy or "normal" people. They will be used to improve memory, mental focus (Ritalin without the side effects), perception and mood (bye, bye Prozac)." http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579435592981780528 View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-04-04 04:38:54

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EVOLUTION OF CULTURE. “A common question is whether culture really evolves. This question comes from both social scientists skeptical of any kind of parallel with evolution, and biologists insistent that Darwin’s theory applies only to genetic evolution. Importantly, no one argues that genetic evolution and cultural evolution operate identically.” http://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/7853.full View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-04-04 04:36:43

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THE SECOND PATH. “Cultural change constitutes a Darwinian evolutionary process that shares key characteristics with the genetic evolution of species. The emergence of this second evolutionary process saw an unprecedented extension of genetic evolution by allowing organisms to adapt more rapidly to, and more powerfully create and shape, their environments.” http://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/7853.full View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-04-04 04:34:45

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the theme of the evolution of culture from a biological viewpoint. Cultural evolution is much faster than biological evolution, a fact our common experience reinforces. Culture is not strictly human, and has been found in many species. And perhaps more surprising, culture can create traits that are thought to contribute to speciation. View in LinkedIn
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