More on the Singularity. (Seti Science and Skepticism Podcast)

[teerts]

http://www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=1624569

May 3, 2006
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Robot Uprising

How well do you know your toaster? Has your vacuum cleaner failed to suck it up recently? Sure, theyre compliant appliances now, but what happens when their hi-tech descendants develop second thoughts about non-stop housework? Find out what to do when the machines wake up, and how you can survive a robot uprising.

Plus, a man whose implanted circuitry brings him closer to cyborg-dom, and the daughter of Isaac Asimov, the writer who first laid out moral behavior for robots. Also hear the theological implications of buildings robots.

Guests:
Robyn Asimov
Vernor Vinge, mathmatician, and science fiction author
Daniel Wilson, author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising
Mikey Sklar, microchip enthusiast
Anne Foerst,professor of computer science and theology at St. Bonaventure University

Stay informed. HUAR!@$!@!#


(attached image originally from robotfrank.com)

[spooky]

dammit, you beat me to it! i was waiting all day yesterday for it to come out, then all morning.....

HUAR!

[teerts]

sorry spook spook.

Addendum for all: Singularity Talk begins at timecode 16:40 mm:ss.
first section is interview with author of "How to survive a robot uprising"


HUAR