robots One small step for a robot, one giant leap for robotkind David Pescovitz

Technology Adam Savage builds a steampunk rickshaw to be pulled by a Boston Dynamics robot Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change Cory Doctorow

Business Interoperability: Fix the internet, not the tech companies Cory Doctorow

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music Enjoy a relaxing AI lullaby written by our future robot overlords Andrea James

books A history of American collapse in science fiction, from 1889's Last American to today Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Kirkus just gave me an AWESOME Christmas present: this starred review for WALKAWAY Cory Doctorow

Business AI Alarmism: why smart people believe dumb things about our future AI overlords Cory Doctorow

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Business Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus gets $92 million severance after 2.5 years on the job Xeni Jardin

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robots Study: new robot overlords will take "only 9.1 million" jobs Rob Beschizza

video WATCH: Our robot overlords will excel at ping-pong Andrea James