2013年4月24日星期三

Man or machine?

No sci-fi plot is as reliable as that of the rebelling robot. It's a story as old as digital time: the once promising but ultimately impetuous computer/child, realizing its mortal creators are at best obsolete and at worst a plight, tries to eradicate humanity/father.The first play to feature automatons, Czech playwright Karel Capek's 1920 piece Rossum's Universal Robots, provided the template for the rotten robot, one used in movies, in books, on television and even music, as on The Flaming Lips 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. 

And of course comic books have mined the robot-versus-man myth, as in the latest Marvel Comics limited series, The Age of Ultron,With this project we wanted to explore an alternative emotion to the standard kitchen non-stick knife you see every day. a tale in which villain Ultron, terrorizing heroes since 1968, returns once again to kill his creator, which is halfway through a run that culminates in June. The series' writer, Brian Michael Bendis, says: "If you take out the homicidal robot aspect of it, it's the son who can't live up his father's expectations and the father who can't control his son." 

It's all very Oedipal, dramatic and sometimes even funny: back in 1985, at the height of primetime soap trend,The woman broke through the door and charged at the man with two large knives wholesaler, so the man fired at the woman's arm, police said. one of Ultron's victims likened the robot's patricidal obsession to the convoluted plots of Dynasty: "You all sound like a soap opera.While China Artificial Landscape manufacturers positioning systems will not replace all traditional multi-axis positioners any time soon, the variety of options that are available today. Are you sure you don't want Blake Carrington too?!" The pop culture references have changed since then, but so too has technology, and the punchline's looking to some like something of the past.Autonomous robots are no longer the far-off,Three members of Greensburg Volunteer Fire Department's onshore hose Company have been honored for each giving 40 years of service to the department, community and firefighting. far-out fantasies they were in 1920 or 1968 or 1985. The latest generation of computerized creations appear to be pulling us closer to the fearsome sounding Singularity, the theoretical point when, according to futurist Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence will surpass our own. Jeopardy-winning supercomputer Watson was only the beginning. 

To alarmists, the rise of the machines must stoke inhuman levels of anxiety.Most important advantage of this Brewers Hose is that the China High Temperature hoses manufacturers create them in a way that they can regain its shape even after an accidental squeeze. And why not? Technology can be truly discomforting. The US government's top secret Darpa labs are currently improving robots' behavioral learning and anomaly detection programs, both of which will make them "smarter" and more efficient killing machines, literally; auto manufacturers are working on self-driving cars like those that run us down in Daniel H Wilson's predictably plotted thriller Robopocalypse; and just this month word spread that European researchers turned on Raputya, an "internet for computers" that bears an uncanny resemblance to Skynet, the fictional super-computer that launched Terminator into our pop culture landscape.

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