Transhumanism will have its winners and its losers. Which one will you be? :)

 This video shows the possible coming revolution of a post-human, singularity approaching future that may be possible barring a large world war,  pandemic, or the understanding of the return of Jesus. Enjoy :)

2014 video courtesy youtube, via Robot Documentary

The Retro Robo Trucker.

Photo courtesy @starbuckmcDee copyright 2015

The retro-macho roboTrucker felt nothing when the endangered bird smacked the windshield and struggled at the edge of the highway. It didn't have any emotion chips installed. The roboTrucker kept driving and didn't even contact the roboAuthorities. It wasn't a part of its programming. The roboStreet sweeper would come around soon enough anyways. Would it at least be composted, or would it just become a part of the landfill? The other human drivers assumed the roboAuthorities would deal with it. The programmers of the roboAuthorities assumed that other programmers would deal with it. The bird, still barely alive, made its way into the nearby tunnel, looking for shade in its last moments. A little boy snapped a Vine post. It went viral across the Eastern Seaboard. The roboAuthorities were soon to be re- programmed, according to reports.

 Traffic was backed up for weeks while they worked out the tweaks. 12 confirmed suicides were reported in the tunnel from disillusioned bird watchers. Everybody's avatars voted for more roboAvatar suicide watchers. Traffic was soon restored as electro-magnetic bird nets were set up in key areas. This changed the birds nesting grounds in Florida, according to some biologists. The robo avatar authorities were looking into it. They eventually concluded to shut off the bird nets. Soon afterwards, another retro-macho roboTrucker hit a rare racoon this Wednesday. It felt a little sad and notified the roboAuthorities. The roboAuthorities felt absolutely terrible within their newly upgraded emotion chips across their neural network and completely shut their traffic control and monitoring systems down. The human programmers interceded and removed the roboAuthorities emotion chips to basic levels. Traffic was mostly restored. The same roboTrucker was running late one day. The human business owners and programmers of the roboTrucker, due to pressure from higher ups, installed a hacked speed control chip from overseas so that it could go as fast as possible in areas where the roboAuthorities didn't have cameras in rare spots. It ran into another hacked roboTrucker from a different company from the opposite direction. The uranium leaked all over the highway when the roboTrucker initiated the hacked self-destruct mode. The other roboTrucker was carrying illegal rare live chickens from South America (the ones that may have come into contact with last year's Avian Influenza strain.) The roboAuthorities were algorithmically and cybernetically dispatched once again. They kept the incident off the news through various means. They didn't want to have their previous high level emotion chips reinstalled. They gathered the injured people into the middle of the Nevada desert for questioning, along with the biological produce and the Uranium as well as the roboTruckers. The  injured were never heard from again and the whole incident went unreported except on conspiracy web feeds. By Friday of the following week everything appeared to be back to normal again.

Copper Clusters Caputure and Convert Carbon Dioxide to Make Fuel

If viable, this nanotechnology method using a copper tetramer catalyst, could be an exiting advance not only in the field of nanotechnology, but of climate science and environmentalism. Nanotechnology can and must be green if we are to advance and prosper as a technological species.

For more on how this  nanotek method works check out the article here

         Photo courtesy TG Techo | Nanotechnology Zone 2015 

                          

Honey I’m Not Robo Anymore. Made in Canada and Destroyed in America

Honey I’m not Robo anymore. Made in Canada, Destroyed in America.

In the Star Wars movies, people who were more enlightened treated their robots with compassion, understanding, patience, tolerance. But those "were more civilized times,” Obi Wan Kenobi would have said once more. I can only imagine what people would do if a SocratesBot or BibleBot Companion or YogaBot Companion was unaccompanied by it’s human owner. But never mind the robots. Numerous owners or future owners are often hurt or killed in America every day. The Canadian robot experiment was NOT a failure. As a Canadian writing about techno and robot ethics issues, I was concerned that things like this would happen across different societies and would reveal peoples’ true natures. This is why I wrote the article called:

The Golden Rule and the better (nano)robots: Love, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of nanoHappiness for All. You can find the original post here:http://quantumnanotimes.blogspot.ca/…/life-liberty-and-purs…

This is also why an American Comic book writer (married to a Canadian) recently wrote a comic book about American led robot armies invading Canada. Technology can be an extension of our thoughts and actions. Some people make can openers, others make missiles. It’s time to beat swords into ploughshares before too many people are beaten into more swords. Need a ride to Joy? Going my way? These words can mean something else, depending on how, where, when and who says them to whom. To say nothing of the answer.
Honey, I’m not robo. I am not robo, robo...robo. Queen Amidala would have said that, “it is to be commended.” HitchBOT boldly went where no HitchBOT went before. And it never came back. What did come back though was the answer: It comes with the territory. As all things and creatures do.

~Paul von Dubrovnik 

Photo Courtesy CBC


We may have Asimov’s Laws of Robotics as an inspiration for robot designers, but we do not yet have set laws for human treatment of robots. If robots become more conscious how can we provide a conscience for them if many of us have consciences which are compromised by ignorance, the “greatest form of poverty” as someone once said. The Golden Rule amongst humans has not been observed across the world all too often and in too many places by too many people too many times. For a refresher of Asimov’s original 3 Laws, see below. For various human cultures’ nuances of the Golden Rule, see below

 

For various human cultures’ nuances of the Golden Rule, see below

photo courtesy J.R. Starbuck Mcdonald