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Is it Science Fiction Yet?
by James Wallace Harris, Thursday, June 29, 2017 I’ve been a science fiction fan my whole life. For sixty years I’ve waited for various science fictional concepts to come true. One of my favorites is...
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More Sense of Wonder Than Science Fiction
by James Wallace Harris, Monday, February 20, 2017 For the first two-thirds of my life sense of wonder mostly came from science fiction, but in the last third science is supplying more wonder. I have...
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Should Manufacturing Robots Be Banned?
by James Wallace Harris, Saturday, November 19, 2016 Because my friends have been depressed since November 8th, I’ve been wondering what it would take to make both liberals and conservatives happy –...
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Should We Give Our Jobs to Robots?
By James Wallace Harris, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 If you use the self-service checkout machines at grocery stores, you have effectively voted to give jobs to robots rather than people. We’ve been...
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Our Fantasy For Interstellar Travel is Dying
For over 50 years I’ve been reading science fiction hoping humanity will someday travel to the stars and settle other planets. Obvious other people do too, just witness the frenzy behind the new Star...
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Would You Nap in a Self-Driving Car?
By James Wallace Harris, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 It won’t be long before self-driving cars will be common. First tested in California, they’re now being let loose in Texas. It’s doubtful you’ll see one...
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Should Robots Be A Major Political Issue in 2016
By James Wallace Harris, Sunday, July 12, 2015 We need to decide if we really want robots. Why are we working so diligently to build our own replacements? We need to decide before its too late. As...
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Appeasing Our Future AI Descendants
By James Wallace Harris, Saturday, July 10, 2015 There’s a famous cartoon where scientists ask a supercomputer, “Is there a God?” And the machine replies, “There is now.” Humans need to get their act...
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Why Did The Robot in Ex Machina Look Like a Beautiful Woman?
By James Wallace Harris, Thursday, April 30, 2015 Ex Machina is a 2015 British science fiction film about artificial intelligence (AI) written and directed by Alex Garland. The story is about a...
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Should We Give Our Jobs to Robots?
By James Wallace Harris, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 If you use the self-service checkout machines at grocery stores, you have effectively voted to give jobs to robots rather than people. We’ve been...
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Our Fantasy For Interstellar Travel is Dying
For over 50 years I’ve been reading science fiction hoping humanity will someday travel to the stars and settle other planets. Obvious other people do too, just witness the frenzy behind the new Star...
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Would You Nap in a Self-Driving Car?
By James Wallace Harris, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 It won’t be long before self-driving cars will be common. First tested in California, they’re now being let loose in Texas. It’s doubtful you’ll see one...
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Should Robots Be A Major Political Issue in 2016
By James Wallace Harris, Sunday, July 12, 2015 We need to decide if we really want robots. Why are we working so diligently to build our own replacements? We need to decide before its too late. As...
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Appeasing Our Future AI Descendants
By James Wallace Harris, Saturday, July 10, 2015 There’s a famous cartoon where scientists ask a supercomputer, “Is there a God?” And the machine replies, “There is now.” Humans need to get their act...
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Why Did The Robot in Ex Machina Look Like a Beautiful Woman?
By James Wallace Harris, Thursday, April 30, 2015 Ex Machina is a 2015 British science fiction film about artificial intelligence (AI) written and directed by Alex Garland. The story is about a...
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By 2020 Robots Will Be Able to Do Most People’s Jobs
By James Wallace Harris, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 People commonly accept that robots are replacing humans at manual labor, but think they will never replace us at mental labor, believing that our...
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Could You Love A Robotic Puppy?
If you could buy a robotic puppy that was indistinguishable from a real puppy except that it didn’t eat, drink and go to the bathroom, would it be as satisfying as having a real puppy? This is...
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What Happens When Humans Aren’t the Smartest Beings on Earth?
What if people weren’t the crown of creation? What if we had to play second banana to Humans 2.0, AI machines, visiting aliens, cyborgs or other potentially smarter beings? I think our fear is they...
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Human 2.0 versus Robot 4.0
If we think of all the versions of genus Homo leading up to modern man as alpha and beta tests, we can call the average person today Human 1.0. Science fiction has often explored the idea of the next...
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A Bacterium, Ant, Cockroach, Mouse, Cat, Extraterrestrial and Robot Walked...
Infinity is a very large number. Larger than you can ever imagine. But let’s try. Until recently we lived in a universe – billions of galaxies, with billions of stars each. Big numbers, but nothing...
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