We are a Dreidel in Kardashev's Type 7 Civilization

Are we just a spinning toy for a child god?

We could within a Type 7 Civilization. We may be there in some form already.
This is just a computer program. A Lite Brite Set. We are a Dreidel. Weeeee!!!
Read it here>>> Kardashev Scale

Image courtesy google images

Astrodroid. Or Cosmodroid in Russian. Either way, the Russian Robotsare coming

For the Motherland. 

http://on.rt.com/74

   Courtesy of RT, 2016

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

Sky Lanes Are Backed Up To A Standstill over New Tokyo Skies Today

RT featured an article that Google et all and Gov about:Drone Air Traffic control for the Twenty-First Century. see article here

 But I say, what about real-people, artificial-people, cyborg-people or enhanced animals  who fly or self-fly Skycars or Uber*SkyCars or GoogleUberSkyCars or AppleiFlyCars in the future? Are they to be treated just like helicopters and aircraft today? The more crowded the skies, the more multi-level lanes and areas we'll need. They had also better be environmentally-friendly -not deadly. Somewhat ironically, I'd prefer to see people surgically attach giant wings to themselves instead of using jet fuel. I'm more of a bio mimicry engineering approach kinda guy. The bio-winged could eat hempseed and forge for berries and food, sustaining their bodies for flight while planting seeds from the poop. Speaking of faecal matter from these future Aves Hominus  creatures, old-fashioned or grounded Homo Sapiens will have to (pun inteded) keep an eagle-eye and look out for pooping wingmen over cities. But if someone above poops on you while you're driving your old-fashioned ground car convertible in Mumbai or Toronto, is that good luck? I suppose it depends on your state of mind or if you're in a ground traffic jam. Speaking of which, maybe the majority of future aircraft must be able to hover because of the future air traffic jams and descent patterns over the increasing height of skyscrapers and airparking spaces. I can imagine the air traffic news feed of the future: "Skylane 11 is jam packed today and the UV index in very high. Any skyvehicle  without proper sunscreen protection will be ticketed and their insurance providers will be immediately notified. Expect delays. If you leave your Skylane for reasons besides an emergency which will be determined by the legal-google-vehcicle cam feed, you will be automatically ticketed and your insurance provider will be immediately notified. 100s of deaths have been already been reported over the skies of New Tokyo 3 months into the new year. That's double the amount of 2040s skydeaths mostly due to skydrivers leaving their lanes because they did not have their emergency rations. 10 deaths from the bio-winged community have also been reported this year so far, although most are still under review, being suspected as suicides by attempting to fly in undesignated skylanes of oncoming airtraffic. The Global Medical Aves Hominus Index has reported that most people who get only basic bio-wing packages and cannot afford the extra-foraging costs of time and money may be a contributing factor in their deaths, causing them to seek suicide or fall from the sky from malnutrition.  News feed brought to you by Nissan. Heaven is within reach. Hop into a Nissan Nebula today and receive an instant bonus 1000 AirMiles. Hop into a Nissan Pegasus and receive an extra 2000 AirMiles or go with our top selling Nissan Icarus and receive 3 months Nissan airside traffic assistance. Offer ends next week. Act now."

Thanks, but I'll stick with the deluxe raptor wing implant procedure from Wingman Corp with one year supply of pre-packaged wild organic hemp seed and air-trail nut mix thank you very much. I like to mimic nature and neither toil or weep, dude.

- copyright 2015 
Paul von Dubrovnik

*Any brand names are used as
artistic license only

      Example of me as a leisurely bio-winger 

       heading out for a delightful summer evening 

flight 

copyright Paul von Dubrovnik 2015

Before uploading thyself, know thyself.

The choice to participate in these pre-Singularity times is now. Driverless cars must not lead to driverless rulers or advisors. All owners must be responsible and linked to their avatars or we may have various entities which run amuck. Humans hiding behind their corporations and AIs may lead to AIs and corporations hiding behind or inside humans. Join the conversation during these most precarious times of the pre-Singularity. 

http://futurethinkers.org/zoltan-istvan-future-politics-transhumanism/

...Seek first the Kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you. 

RoboVacuum attack in South Korea.

A woman is mauled by her robo vacuum. Is this gorilla marketing or just that people in Korea sleep on floors more than the average North American or European? It will be interesting to see which country in the near future will be attacked by their Robosex unit. My guess is Ñebraska or Bum-%#!k Idaho, by 2021. Either way, the robovacuum manufacturers are smiling. They know any publicity is good publicity and any mention of robots, especially within the younger demographic, will increase value for the industry. Trust me, when the first Robosex accident or sextape occurs with a minor celebrity involving anything remotely robotic, Robosex devices will become an even more desired modern item. Especially if they look like Marilyn Monroe or James Dean- and even more so if they can vacuum.

~Paul von Dubrovnik

http://laughingsquid.com/robotic-vacuum-cleaner-attacks-south-korean-woman-sucks-up-her-hair/

Attack of the robovacuum. Robo Accidents happen and is proof that South Korea is soon 

becoming a geeky sister to the Robot Kingdom. Photo courtesy of fair use policy. 

Break out the popcorn and nanosalt. It's webcast time.

Break out the popcorn and nanosalt, it's webcast time! Push it....to the limit! However, get some REM sleep before you RANF with FEI DualBeam Technology. You'll thank me later.

Photo Courtesy Marketing.fei.com 

http://marketing.fei.com/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/4019/p/p-0132/t/page/fm/2

Will travelling back in time cause our present to vanish? It may already have.

Personally, I think travelling back in time is only possible through our consciousness via tapping into the quantum reality grid. People do it all the time but only for moments of time and it is only the 'radio-like' transceivers of this grid and our minds that do it. Receiving future flashes and past flashes changes our present, past and future. It is a very big layer cake which is always constant and ever changing. There is nothing new under the sun, but every day is new. There is eternity or nothing. You just have to make up your mind, unless it's already made up already and always was. Choose life!

For the more curious, check out this video about the 'Grandfather paradox'. Indians have been discussing this since...quite some 'time'. Do you have a little more than a hour to spare? If not, reserve it for later. Or maybe you already have, sometime elsewhere. :)

~ Paul von Dubrovnik

Nanotechnology documentary.

This short documentary on nanotechnology may blow your mind.

Enjoy.

Cherry Flavored iPhones and Laptops in the Future? Smells like nano Beckham!

Technology made from sucrose and corn polymers. My iphone is disposable as I throw it in the compost or my garden. Right next to the old TV which is now fertilizer for my tomatoes. I ate my panasonic phone last week....it was Ketchup flavored. My bluetooth earpiece is vitamin C when it breaks. My Nanotech Utopia is now complete. Or will someone ruin the party, lol?

http://www.nanomagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2436%3Ananotechnology-so-good-you-can-eat-it&catid=38&Itemid=159

Smells like Beckham Bluetooth Edible Nanotech.

pictures courtesy google images, 2014. 

-Paul von Dubrovnik

The 'Robots of Brixton'. A short movie about robotic life in a degenerated city of the future.

Great short film showing the sad, messed up lives of robotic workers in the future. Looks like some real human workers lives today. We're already there...only we are HUMAN. 

Robots of Brixton from Kibwe Tavares on Vimeo.

Would buying stocks in robotics make you wealthy or render you 'jobless'? Or both?

Perhaps if you buy stocks in corporations that specialize in robotics, nanotechnology and other cutting edge technologies that will change industries you may not have a long term career in the sector, but you may become wealthy in the process and then be able to invest in even more  robotics surveillance and military drones, automated prisons and nanomaterials for bullet proof and riot proof gear, etc., This is what many wealthy investors are doing now. You can start now, when you're young and decide where to put your money later on and choose which side you can work with during the....

ROBOT-HUMAN REVOLUTION OF THE YEAR 20____!

Investors always steer the ship to whatever they deem profitable, no matter what the long term costs are...nevertheless, you can always make money now and decide where to put your chips (or your nanobot secret army later.) LOL

-Paul von Dubrovnik

Check out one money man's thoughts on the subject below:

http://wealthyretirement.com/the-robot-revolution/

Are we headed into an 'Age of Organic Lemon Powered Nanobots'?

The Pomegranate, whose biblical proportions inspired so much before, may be the inspiration for your next car battery and more. And if that wasn't biomimicry enough for you, the Chinese scientists who need a cheaper source of silicon nanoparticles may even use 'un-consumable' rice husks for the task. We may be headed into to an 'age of organic lemon-powered nanobots.' The next task for all things nanotek is: can we 'make' them Kosher? Only a few will be able to tell before it is known by all.

-Paul von Dubrovnik

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-pomegranate-inspired-problems-lithium-ion-batteries.html#ajTabs

photo courtesy 'phys.org'

Oy vey! Get your hands off your fluidic channel and learn some nanotechnology already.

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is offering a free online course from the online open learning platform at 'Coursera.' It is a 10 week long course and is offered in Arabic or English and is described below (taken from their website.) The course is called Nanotechnology and Nanosensors. So....book March 3rd, 2014 as the day you decided to use 'the internet' for some free education from a well respected institute and institutionalize your self. At the very least, you'll know if you prefer synthesizing metal oxide structures by dry methods or wet methods. Who knows, maybe that would explain why you prefer 'wetter' Bindi Masala or the dryer version. (I'm a wet man myself.)                   So stop playing with your 'fluidic channel' and popping those plastic bubbles from the left over plastic blister pack from that Star Wars toy you ordered from e-Bay and learn about 'Blown Bubble Film' instead- and make mama and pappa happy :) GET INTO IT! 

  Anyhow....here's the  English version link and course description in their own words:

Learn about novel sensing tools that make use of nanotechnology to screen, detect and monitor various events in personal or professional life. Together, we will lay the groundwork for infinite innovative applications, starting from diagnosis and treatments of diseases, continuing with quality control of goods and environmental aspects, and ending with monitoring security issues.

Free course available here >>> https://www.coursera.org/course/nanosensors

Are Asimov's Laws able to function in a world based on greed?

Even with Asimov's Laws, would robots be hack proof? Or, what if someone hacks them, turning them into what the hackers or secret agencies want to do with them, and then make these new changes hack proof? Can we handle robots in a society that engages in war and harmful medical procedures and food systems and environmental behavior? Can robots and other technologies co-exist in a society based on greed? Will people who only care about XBOXs and McDonald's hamburgers really care about these things? If we can't follow the Golden Rule do we invent artificial beings that can? Will a publicly traded company based on profit, like Google or Microsoft save us? Will these encroaching scenarios drive a deeper wedge between God and man? Regarding the tin robots, it may be recommended to remove the 3rd Law...too much could go wrong. As of now, robots- as well as corporations- should not have the same rights as human beings. People should not be able to hide behind robots or corporations. Unfortunately, with respect to corporations, people are essentially hiding behind corporations and are able to get away with many nefarious deeds. If current corporate law and manufacturers warranties, liabilities and the like are seen as precedent, then unfortunately we will be at the mercy of not only of de-facto automatons of corporations, but automatons of corporations' who control robots, all subject to the mercy of the global marketplace which is only designed to run on human greed, needs and wants, running essentially on auto-pilot, conquering those attempting to mitigate or reduce their powers and machinations. Corporations and human technology is becoming like a giant manufactured zombie-like hammer, running amuck throughout the world where people are given the choice: work for the hammer, run from the hammer, fight the hammer, destroy the hammer, attempt to be a part of controlling the hammer, ignore the hammer and so on. This may explain why so many people are getting 'hammered'.... in it's myriad of meanings. Put on your full armor.

-Paul von Dubrovnik

see Asimov's Laws of Robotics below. You may also be interested in the following link about Google's robotics interests here:  http://www.geek.com/apps/google-could-be-the-first-company-to-implement-asimovs-three-laws-1583203/

"My Name is Robo Joe". A Video Poem about the meaning of love according to a synthetic creature.

Artist and technology ethicist Paul von Dubrovnik's short movie poem about a robot contemplating 'love' by lamenting its own being by tugging at the heartstrings of its creators in the language that its creators may understand.

My Name is Robo Joe....(Enjoy the show below):

-Paul von Dubrovnik

Google's Quest for Artificial Intelligence and Robots. Will it be good? Or will it be Cyberdine? Laughing Uncomfortably Out Loud :)

Google's quest for everything cutting edge, starting with the cyber realm in the beginning and branching off to the outside world, most recently with military based companies in robotics and also hiring big ticket artificial intelligence researchers, like Ray Kurzweil, definitely smacks of a de-facto monopoly and is eerily reminiscent of the rise of 'Cyberdine Systems' in the Terminator series. If there is to be a de-facto meme or hyper-intelligence mind/brain complex that becomes autonomous, it's desire  control region would most likely be Google, gobbling up other little dreamer types with Microsoft trying to not become a hard, fibrous lump left over. The rest of the brain complex, such as people and governments and churches and so on, who used to act as the impulse control centres? They could be seen as being damaged or absorbed by this hyper-tech google dominated realm.

The truth is, Google (and yes, many others in the mainly computer and communications realm) are every intelligence agency and military blocks wet-dream, and with recent whistleblowing by Edward Snowden and Mr. Assange (who got the ball rolling) illustrates this.

The question becomes: will these former 20 and 30 somethings -call them the kids- and their legion of their original followers and users (call them their 'friends')  take on the evil and nosy spy agencies and war machines, or will the kids become evil and join the spies and militaries and become the 'evil' they always bitched about? Will that force (more and more?) people onto a Darknet/Darkweb, dark alleys, up-state New York or Canada or Timbuktu. etc., because of lack of money, power, access, paranoia, political assylum, the need for privacy, and more- 'forced' to 'live' (i.e., operate their modern lives)  in places where 'real evil' people hang out, like 'axe-murderers' and pedophiles, rapists?

Or, regardless, will simply the fact that the hyper-rapid rise or spread/adoption of these 'potentially wicked' technologies and abilities simply outsource 'everything/everybody' rendering most of us useless and collapsing the economy? And if that happens, will Google Save us? After all, their 'unofficial' tag line was, "Don't Be Evil."

Because, after all....(if you live in the developed-ish world and have decent access to technology), you can just google it...or just Bing it, if Bill Gates makes a 'comeback' for the masses.


Remember: Apple and Google and many others started up in garages. But, if the economy in those free-enterprise areas collapse from the weight and hyper-rise and outsourcing/making most jobs irrelevant from the very guys who got rich from out of those garages, will people be able to making anything out of their garages at all...and the ones who do, will they become 'button-down oxford psychos' to quote 'Fight Club', and if so should we worry? And if we worry, will the Military order in some Google Attack Drones. 


For now, here's a great robot learning and buying site. Make sure you program these robots according to the Golden Rule...but then again, who really follows that one anyways?  So, maybe you should start building lots of robots and computer software for yourself....and your friends.

Laughing Uncomfortably Out Loud

-Paul von Dubrovnik

http://www.robotshop.com/blog/en/personal-artificial-intelligence-12651

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

Google's Atlas Robot, "Shouldering the Weight of the World, or what?"
Courtesy (for now): Google