Concerning the recent robot killing spree:
But contrary to some reports, the tragic accident was not the result of an automated or robotic weapon going out of control… the incident is more likely the result of a simple mechanical failure.
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Awesome new vid by the creator of The machine is us/ing us. Link via BoingBoing.
This works perfectly to counteract the arguments Dreyfus uses in his On the Internet.

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This plus this brings the metaverse that much closer.
We are literally one technological convergence step away from a world entirely marked up by metadata. This basically means that we are one killer gadget away from a world where continuous, real-time access to that metadata is assumed as part of an individual’s basic equipment set, [...]

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Of the Force of Imagination, Montaigne
There was lately seene a cat about my owne house, so earnestly eyeing a bird, sitting upon a tree, that he seeing the cat, they both so wistly fixed their looks one upon another, so long, that at last the bird fell downe as dead in the cat’s pawes, either [...]

xkcd via dc

Love in the digital age @ blogs.NYT.com. Thanks, Michele! HTEC LIVES!
Communication has been streamlined by the Internet, and something essential to the process of falling in love has been lost. We can type up carefully crafted statements rather than go face-to-face and improvise from the heart, thereby risking embarrassment, vulnerability or Oscar-worthy dialogue. We can [...]

Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen @ MSNBC.com, filed under ‘Innovation’. via /.
At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, “but once you have a story like ‘I had sex with a robot, and it was great!’ appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I’d expect many people to jump on the bandwagon,” Levy [...]

From Aramis, or the Love of Technology by Bruno Latour
By definition, a technological project is a fiction, since at the outset it does not exist, and there is no way it can exist yet because it is in the project phase.
This tautology frees the analysis of technologies from the burden that weighs on the [...]