Tag Archive | robots
A 1911 Zoomer: To Saturn and Back
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Unless you’re a new visitor to my blog, you’ll have heard that my latest book, A Heaven For Toasters, is now live. Set in the near future, A Heaven for Toasters is more than a sci-fi crime romance. It’s the book that will make you look at your toaster in a whole…
A Heaven For Toasters is Live
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
My latest book is now officially live! For anyone who has missed the news, it’s called A Heaven For Toasters, and kicks off what will hopefully turn into a fun new series. I also have the first reader review, by the amazing Linda McDougal: I just finished A Heaven For Toasters.…
Robotic carers? What next? #carersweek
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
“Robots to look after elderly in care homes…” That was the only bit of the headline that I saw as I dived out of the shop this morning on my way to work. As a carer. Granted, the implication was that this was a futuristic premise… a…
Why Creative People Are Safe from Robots
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Rise of the Machines “Now, where did I leave my pen?”Photo: Fortune – AP Photo/The Christian Science Monitor, Ann Hermes Jobs board Monster.com ran an online poll recently, asking people how threatened they feel by robots. Namely, how likely they find it that a robot will be doing their work…
Superintelligence By Nick Bostrom
Originally posted on K Morris – Poet:
Nick Bostrom’s “Superintelligence” sounds as though it will make for interesting and perhaps, at times somewhat heavy reading. The author, an Oxford Professor, looks at the future of artificial intelligence and what will happen when (he thinks that it is inevitable) machines attain greater levels of intelligence than…
Shifting Reality by Patty Jansen – Review
Originally posted on Rhythempoets:
Blurb: A few years ago, a military doctor walking the corridors of New Jakarta Station saved Melati’s life. She signed up for the International Space Force to pay back her moral debt to him. But her family thinks she has betrayed her people. It was ISF who forcefully removed their grandmothers…
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