Entries from Open the Future tagged with 'Uncanny Valley'
Tuesday Topsight, August 26, 2008
Lots of stuff, some of which I hope to get back to in more detail. • Crowd (Re)Sourcing: Spot.us is a new bottom-up journalism site with a novel funding model: community members pool their money to pay journalists to go...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on August 26, 2008 3:15 PM
The Second Uncanny Valley
The "Uncanny Valley" is the evocative name for the commonplace reaction to realistic-but-not-quite-right simulated humans, robotic or animated. Most of us, when encountering such a simulacrum, have an instinctive "it's creepy" response, one that is enhanced when the sim...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on October 27, 2007 12:57 PM
Monday Topsight, September 17, 2007
Back in the US now, at least for the next two weeks -- then off to Budapest, to speak at a conference entitled "Visions of the Future. Technology and Society: Global and Local Challenges." Trying to get back into the...
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Posted by Jamais Cascio on September 17, 2007 11:53 PM
RoboFactory
(Cue "Powerhouse," by Raymond Scott) Nanofabbers are on my mind right now. They've shown up in some work I'm doing with IFTF; they're the focus of a project underway with CRN; and they're one of the manifestations of the "software...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on January 4, 2007 5:20 PM
Must-Know Concepts for the 21st Century
My colleague at IEET, George Dvorsky, posted a list of concept about the future that he sees as vital for people who consider themselves to be intelligent to know and understand. His goal is admirable: too much of what passes...
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Posted by Jamais Cascio on December 31, 2006 1:14 PM
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