A week-long debate over at the LA Times (similar to the one that Homer Hickam and I had on space last fall).
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The End Of The Steam Age
The Navy is shifting from steam catapults to electric launchers for its aircraft carriers.
Cool.
Got A Second?
On Leap Day, some thoughts on timekeeping problems from Alan Boyle.
“Neither Gods Nor Goo”
An interesting survey on the current state of nanotech.
“Neither Gods Nor Goo”
An interesting survey on the current state of nanotech.
“Neither Gods Nor Goo”
An interesting survey on the current state of nanotech.
“Slow The Development Of Future Combat Systems”
In what fantasyland does Obama think that this is a winning campaign plank during a war?
I see another 1972 coming up for the Dems.
“Slow The Development Of Future Combat Systems”
In what fantasyland does Obama think that this is a winning campaign plank during a war?
I see another 1972 coming up for the Dems.
“Slow The Development Of Future Combat Systems”
In what fantasyland does Obama think that this is a winning campaign plank during a war?
I see another 1972 coming up for the Dems.
Terminators, Coming Up
Alan Boyle has an interesting post on the ethics of killer robots.
“Asimov contributed greatly in the sense that he put up a straw man to get the debate going on robotics,” Arkin said. “But it’s not a basis for morality. He created [the Three Laws] deliberately with gaps so you could have some interesting stories.”
Even without the Three Laws, there’s plenty in today’s debate over battlefield robotics to keep novelists and philosophers busy: Is it immoral to wage robotic war on humans? How many civilian casualties are acceptable when a robot is doing the fighting? If a killer robot goes haywire, who (or what) goes before the war-crimes tribunal?