Saturday, May 24, 2008

Future

Hopefully we have deepened our knowledge of the past to better our decisions of the future.

Predict the future through patterns of the past: Design motif

"The Best way to predict the future is to invent it"
Allen Key

Robotics:
Took decades of engineering to create a robot that could move on two legs. Word Origin:
1920's Factory that produced artificial people, called robbots.
"Robot" in Chekoslavakian means to force labour.
Leonado De Vinci - First robots: He was the first to contemplate the idea of the robot.

MIT's 2007 annual robotics engineering competition.

"Suvival Research Labs"
SLR Art proformances by robots, industrial robot fights. They have been made ledgenary by such free invitation proformances, as in if you invite SLR they will come and preform for free. Over the years their proformances have grown more violent as the robots have gotten more sophisticated.



Robotlab
Jukebot
- They study the relationsip between robots and people. More common robots are the industrial robots, of which there are literally millions, however they are rarely found in public spaces, usally only foound in industrial places.

They Argue that because of this, people have not assesed their own relationship with robots and they want more robots in public spaces.
"bios [Bible]"
2007
- A robot wrote out the entire bible by hand in ink pen, uninterupted. - High precision of text! Script writting.
Stalrac
"Third Arm"
1981 We never had a mind of our own, our bodies are manipulators.
The Tissue Culture as Art project. "dissembodied Cusine" www.tca .uwa.edu.au. Frog steak, Do we need to kill animales to eat them?
Seems like science teachers trying to pass off math as art when art is the emotional side, they just can't mix!
Eduardo Kac - "Alba"
Flourescent Bunny, now that we can create life like this, how will we deal with it?
Maray Shelly (Frankenstein 1818)
Jules Verne (journey to the centre of the earth 1864)
H G Wells (War of the Worlds 1898)
Issac Asimoue (I, Robot 1950)
2001 A Space Odessey (1968)
- Robots taking over, Turning Evil and killing. Popular Idea up to the 1980's; Yet now robots are smarter, instead of simply killing people, they infiltrait them, with the goal of genocide of the entire human race, Battle Star Galactica.
Star Trek, We copy ideas from it (Palm sized communicators ...)
"Any sufficiently sophisticated technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Authur C. Clark

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