Hans Moravec has been building robots since 1963: his first at age ten. His 1988 book, Mindchildren began a public access to the ideas of his speculative science. His current volume, Robot continues these conjectures of a future robot-run world with fervor. Moravec holds that a robot-reign is inevitable and that it won’t be so bad.
Hans Moravec is currently a Principal Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. Continue reading “Hans Moravec: Robots Rising”
Kevin Kelly is probably best known by the magazine of which he is Executive Editor. Wired, the self-proclaimed “voice of the digital revolution,” is his day job. Other revolutionary non-Wired involvements include publishing and editing the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news from 1984 to 1990. In 1989 he launched the first 24-hour virtual reality jamboree, and the first venue to bring VR technology to the public. He was co-founder of the Hackers’ Conference and is an early board member of the Well, the first “real” online community. Continue reading “Kevin Kelly: New World Man”
If you’ve ever visited the “News for Nerds” site, Slashdot, chances are you’re familiar with Jon Katz. He writes regular columns over there covering everything from the Internet as a new Enlightenment to the Columbine shootings (more specifically the effect the aftermath had on geeks in high schools across the country). Continue reading “Jon Katz: Geeks R Us”
