Saturday, March 3, 2012

The birth of Skynet anyone?

Vijay Kumar's labs at the University of Pennsylvania are building some pretty amazing flying robots that can act as a unit, fly in formation and and do some other very cool things. These smalls robots could function in a variety of ways, including first response missions to ferret out intruders or find survivors in collapsed buildings, the transportation of objects and construction.




As amazing as this technology is, we have to consider the repercussions of an increasingly automated world. Could the world of Terminator really exist one day? When will the fascinating advances in Robotics result in the hostile take over of the earth by vengeful A.I.?


I've listed a few books and films that portray different versions of humanities future and how machines can change or even dominate the world. Help me compile a full list of A.I. by adding some titles to the Comments section


iRobot series Issac Asimov 
Dune prequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson 
      Butlerian Jihad
      The Machine Crusade
      The Battle of Corrin 

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

The Ship Who Sang by Anne McAffrey

The Ghost in the Machine

The Matrix film series

Terminator film series

 

 


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