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Sci-fi//Letter to Manhattan

Imagined futures and possibilities depicted in most films are almost always located in California, as Kim Stanley Robinson explains...

The Last Job <on Earth>

Isaac Asimov’s three laws for smart machines from the 1942 short story “Runaround” commands: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or,...

A fitbit in your skull

In the summer of 2016, WhatsApp turned on end-to-end encryption by default for all of their billions of users becoming the world's...

Gluten-free Space Travel

It’s been two months since the lock down and the most exciting part of the day, for me, has been my meals. Ever wondered how astronauts...

Why haven’t we seen visitors from the future yet?

I just completed reading ‘Exhalation’ by Ted Chiang and one of my favorite chapters from the book is ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s...

Migration: The 13th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival

The 13th Imagine Science Film Festival is here and the theme is MIGRATION! “The flight of the arctic tern, the multi-generational travels...

A Guide to Play AI (humans)

A “holy cow moment” for humans in Silicon Valley defn. a moment where we realize that AI is actually progressing a lot faster than we...

POETECH

The Turing test for poetry on botpoet.com is a game that asks you to guess if a poem is written by a robot or human. If Artificial...

LOVE, GUEST and CRISPR

“You won’t understand, you’re un-artificial intelligence” answers a home assistant device when a human lover confronts her about being in...

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN IN THE 21ST CENTURY

This spotlight covers Artificial Intelligence, humanoids and finally, an alien’s perspective on human life. The Redness of Red, Tears in...