Wednesday, October 6, 2010

future shock

1. (T/F) Rodney Brooks thinks our detailed discovery of the nature of extrasolar life is immanent.

2. Paul Davies' view that the universe is biofriendly would  be strengthened by _____...

3. "We" will begin colonizing the Milky Way in _____, speculates (fantasizes?) John Gottman.

4. If there is other life in the universe, George Dyson suspects, it will be (is?)  _______ life.

5. We will not have to die anymore, says David Eagleman, if we can ___...

6. The key to creating a "technology of embodied information" is to think of life as an ______.

7. Gary Marcus says when we figure out how the brain works we won't need ___...

8.Stanley Kubrick says death is ________.

9. Our future depends on how ___________ we make the initial conditions of AI, says Nick Bostrom.

10. Gregory Paul predicts that most future  ______ will choose to become _______. (humans/robotic, robots/human, religions/mystical).

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