This may be a first: a pre-legislative formal parliamentary document (the article contains a link to the EU Parliament site) proposing rights and liabilities for robots and citing Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) and Isaac Asimov (I, Robot) along the way. If Robots had had the right to vote last Thursday in Brexit, things might have turned […]
Fascinations
Terrifically lateral idea for new mode of road transport
Very cool, very lateral, and with some interesting economics. Presumably, ordinary road travellers would get used to the idea of envelopment by a relatively-moving tunnel coming up from behind. Nice video and diagram if you wait for the ads to finish. Read Story Here
Will US Congress see Criminal Rule 41 as Dystopian or as a great move against Cybercrime
The law should keep pace with technology on all fronts or society can’t be regulated effectively. Cybercrime ought to be near the top of lawmakers’ agendae, and not just in the US. But the feverish debate that’s started is whether things have gone too far, particularly as regards the fairly unrestrained jurisdictional geography Rule 41 […]
Two degree Celsius warming locks in sea level rise for thousands of years
Quotes can be powerful things; in this piece, one scientist states: “Without significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over the next couple of decades, we will commit the Antarctic ice sheet to ongoing and widespread melting for the next few thousand years. Is that something for which we really want to be responsible?” No doubt, […]
New Ice-Age was Averted just before the Industrial Revolution
An entirely new slant on global warming. Looking past the linked piece, it’s worth reading the Abstract in the referenced Nature paper; note the statement in relation to glacial cycles “…..glacial inception was narrowly missed before the beginning of the Industrial Revolution”. Read The Story Here