RoboCup
So on Wednesday night while cooking dinner I was listening with half an ear to Talk of the Nation on NPR, and at some point found that I was listening to a discussion about Robots. They were talking to Lee Gutkind about his new book about Robots, and about the future, and robots as tools, and interfacing with robots and so forth. All very interesting, all 
made somewhat more engaging by the very deliberate way the interviewee spoke, taking great care with every sentence he uttered. This feat rather kept my attention more than the material, which I’ll hasten to add was not uninteresting -and certainly a topic I spent a lot of my youth dreaming about especially given all the Asimov books I used to devour- but not my focus was elsewhere I suppose. You can listen to the program here, and it is all certainly worth thinking about, it is a very serious and important topic, and robots (although mostly not in the form we see in our dramas on tv and in the cinema) may well dominate our society the way computers have become so central to us right now… so go right ahead and listen to what he has to say.
What finally grabbed me, this time, was not the serious “issue” material. It was this: […] Click to continue reading this post
