If Wintermute wins, he/it will . . . do very well on Jeopardy? But before there was Watson, there was The Today Show, asking the hard-hitting questions and wondering what the hell that internet thing was:
Archive for February, 2011
xkcd’s attempts to visualize the territory that is cyberspace:
It would be irresponsible to discuss weaponized animals without covering sharks with laser beams on their heads, so: On a slightly more serious/relevant note, a friend of mine pointed me to Boston Dynamics’ BigDog project (it’s even made wikipedia): Pretty wild.
As we dive into the ethics of cloning, it’s impossible not to tip our collective hat to Calvin and Hobbes and the transmogrifier: