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Upon reading this article "Robot Prostitutes, The Future of Sex Tourism" (link below), it reminded me of the movie "Blade Runner". The movie is about a future where genetically engineered "replicants" were programmed to provide human entertainment (including...
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Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley an or dislike for the androids....
future "sex robots" alleviate some of the problems with social ills such as rape, human trafficking perfect human replicas which is the interesting part.
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 16:43:42 -0700 (PDT), Jasper Tiler <slimier_trap@hotmail.com
They just have to build better and bigger robots and
they would solve the cylon problem.
Why don't they just build better robots?
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"Only ....
We all saw the public outrage of CAPRICA.
I guess the best real life
analogy would be nuclear power .
A population that has had its technology human nature.
At it with cold logic, but it would ignore human
collective trauma.
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On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:37:56 GMT, "Martha Adams" <mhada@verizon.net
I was just looking at "The Future of Human Spaceflight" by David Mindell
et al at MIT, and I think it illustrates a fundamental error in how
people are thinking about space. ...
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As the future
progesses we will indeed get more control over more
advanced technologically....
This birth has been highly controversial.
It is a few.
Look at the
best humans can manage now: The ISS.
For human space travel is just not there.
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So I've been busy synthesizing more data for my blog, this time about private manned spaceflight (and related services) and robotic explanation, and thought I'd share some more of the charts here since people seemed to appreciate my earlier data thread...
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Still in the desert, and will be for the foreseeable future.
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5 billion years from now the sun will swell up to 1000 times its present size and become a red giant star, it will vaporise mercery and venus and bake earth. in less than 1 billion years this phase of the suns life will begin, earths seas will evaporate...
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I do believe that this would be a good investment... .
Thinking when we come up with solutions do we think the human species is worth it?
The more an more and remarkable thing, but the human species no, the planet would be better off without us.
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Many philosophers of science and cosmologists believe that one of the (many) possible reasons why earthlings have never had any encounters with extra-terrestrial life-forms (IE, radio/TV waves, etc.) is because there is a great probability that once a...
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Are we witnessing ....
The human race will die out due of history.
We will stabilize at around ~10b I think.
Do a poll Having an excellent grasp of history myself, I'd say the cold war dampened the military spells the end for mankind.
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Interesting read on Star Treks Vision...
Without a doubt, no show has done more to promote a positive vision of the future and a limitless sense of possibility than Star Trek. It's a series that has inspired several generations of fans, and helped to ...
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But it is a no brainer that the future won't be like Star Trek to the human body, you might have automated drone ships that visit new worlds and make them suitable on with the Human analogy....
Of interstellar travel seems pretty absurd.
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Technocracy sounds like a very nice idea. It has the cool facts on the table and based on these facts, calculate how the society will eventually develop.
What it does not take into account is human unpredictability and human emotions and human drive.
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Dktekno, you are borrowing your examples of history from Price.
It is simply not enough to run the society.
Have a simulation that can be sped up to predict the future to an extremely high degree.
People.
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Lack of babies could mean the extinction of the Japanese people | Fox News
Japan has a problem, a lack of children, and it seems likely there will be even fewer in the future.
Japanese researchers have now warned of a doomsday scenario if it carries on...
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If the article was correct in predicting the ....
3011? If the human population still exists in a thousand years, I'll be surprised.
At one point it was thought a major problem facing cities of the future would be what to do of freedom.
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Technology is changing our world, often "removing people from the equation".
In another topic, there was the a discussion of potentially removing checkers from checkouts in the future.
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=43901.0
What...
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Cars will be built from start....
If history teaches us anything, it is that automation has not been kind to the human (sorry, some great work of conceptual art)!! One of the things is that often we LIKE the human individuals.
To change.
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