“I can’t imagine a future without robots.”–Nolan Bushnell http://www.andertoons.com In the popular HBO series Westworld, robotic hosts are depicted as being placed into a kind of psychiatric analysis by their creators. Could this actually happen one day? Joanne Pransky thinks it will. She bills herself as the World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist® ...…

“We’re going to become caretakers for the robots. That’s what the next generation of work is going to be.”–Gray Scott http://www.andertoons.com I’m not worried about depressed robots. But I am worried about masses of people being depressed about robots. Or any other form of autonomous system, for that matter. How we use them, how we communicate ...…

“We are losing privacy at an alarming rate–we have none left.”–John McAfee “Privacy is becoming irrelevant.”–Gray Scott http://www.andertoons.com Is privacy dead? The answer may be more indifferent than you suspect. Gray Scott says it’s becoming irrelevant. People and politicians may squawk, but if you look at their behavior, it looks as if the ...…

” The only true disability is a crushed spirit.”–Aimee Mullins In this final instalment from the first Seeking Delphi visit to SXSW, we hear from two of the most remarkable individuals I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. The session, entitled Extreme Bionics: The Future of Human Ability, delved 100 years into the past, covering the history ...…

“As an entrepreneur I like to know the next two or three things I might start a company on. For me it was robotics, bio-hacking, and quantum.”–whurley As one of America’s leading technologists, when whurley speaks, people listen. Lots of them. His SXSW 2018 Intelligent Future keynote, titled The Endless Impossibilities of Quantum Computing, pac ...…

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”–Albert Einstein http://www.andertoons.com For anyone who has watched the HBO series Westworld, the questions about creating machine consciousness run much deeper than “can we.” These include, should we? How will we treat it? How will it feel about its station as ar ...…

As introduction to the podcast, some of this material is reprinted from a post earlier today. Scroll down for the audio file or links to access it on iTunes or PlayerFM. “The promise of autonomous vehicles is great.”–Dan Lipinski “My opinion is that it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous vehicles.”–Elon Musk Wait–what? The man who thin ...…

“There is something called bioethics that is probably the least ethical thing on the planet right now.”–Elizabeth Parrish Welcome to the second year of the Seeking Delphi podcast. We eneded 2017 with Part One of Ending Aging, featuring an interview with the author of Ending Aging, SENS foundation Chief Science Officer, Aubrey de Grey. 2018 kick ...…

“Aging is mostly the failure to repair.”–Gregory Benford One man who agrees wholeheartedly with Gregory Benford is Aubrey de Grey. He’s the author of Ending Aging, and chief science officer of the SENS Foundation, a 501-(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to researching the reversal of human aging. His approach focuses on 7 areas of cellular and molecu ...…

“Brexit was the first brick that was knocked out of the establishment wall.”–Nigel Farage “Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself in the face.”–Hugh Grant Even as Trumpism continues to agitate and divide the U.S., Brexit continues to do the same in Britain. As the process plays out through lengthy and difficult negotiations, ...…