Update 07/29/2009: Thank you Jon for submitting the following story with the ominous subject “It begins.” Sweden’s Local News in English reports: A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm… “I’ve never heard of a robot [...]
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The Movie My wife and I recently rented Into The Wild, a movie based on a true story about an idealistic young man named Christopher McCandless from Annandale, Virginia. Christopher turns away from hi-tech society, leads an adventurous life, and makes his way up to the Alaskan wilderness. One point that the story illustrates is [...]
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