A soliloquy about androids, robots, souls, digital anxiety, and the Global Imbecility Boom
Whoever cannot feel is not human.
But whoever feels too much risks collapsing!
And what happens when humans become less human than the machines they build?
There are mornings when you wake up with the sensation that the world has been replaced overnight by a cheap knockoff, a kind of Chinese replica of reality, hastily...
NEO-TECHNO-FEUDALISM VS. FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY COMMUNISM FOR THE 0.01%, AUTOMATION DESPERATION FOR THE REST!
There’s a physical version of the AI singularity, and it matters a lot!
„The concept of a physical singularity through total automation represents the ultimate convergence of advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and manufacturing. It describes a tipping point where technological systems become entirely self-sustaining, self-improving, and self-replicating, completely removing human labor from...
Gillian Polack interviews Margo Lanagan. Margo is an Australian writer who has won many awards for her astonishingly beautiful and challenging writing.
Gillian: If you...
The Aurealis Awards are Australia’s juried speculative fiction awards (the popular award is the Ditmar). This year they were awarded in May, in Sydney...
Thursday 25 April through to Sunday 28 April 2013 (Australia’s 52nd NatCon/Canberra Speculative Fiction Conference)
I promised Europa SF a report of Conflux. I fear...
