A new artificial species might challenge our superiority. Mechanical beings have the potential to change everything. And how we got them is a story of astonishing twists and amazing turns. Jim Al-Khalili, Revolutions: The Ideas that Changed the World VI: Robots, BBC 2019
A new breed of robot is taking shape in laboratories all over the world. A kind of robot that can do more than just make things or perform repetitive tasks. These are the robots that will interact with us. Become our friends. Or perhaps our enemies. Robots will usher in a new era of humanity’s relationship with technology. ibid.
The runner’s name was Alan Turing, at the time a fellow of Cambridge University. The problem he was wondering about concerned the limits of mathematics itself. He imagined a machine that carried a program in its memory, a device that could solve any problem that could be described mathematically. The idea became known as a Universal Turing Machine, or universal computer. ibid.
Is AI about to revolutionise health care? Can robots outperform doctors? The new tech that’s already saving lives. And can robots replace carers? Tonight: Can Robots Save the NHS? ITV 2020
‘What’s the purpose behind this excessive push towards gender fluidity?’ The Corbett Report: What is the Trans Agenda? James Corbett online 2021
Always struck me as a particularly synthetic movement. ibid.
This isn’t what transhumanism is really about, right? ibid.
2008: Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary: George Dvorsky & James Hughes. ibid.
A Cyborg Manifesto: Donna Haraway.