articles Are Cyberpunk and Science Fiction dead? In Science Fiction the plot is fairly linear, with characters defined and more or less recognizable in patterns. In Cyberpunk, linearity is broken, protagonist-situation relationships are complex and ambiguous.
reviews Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic: On human empowerment and control Johnny Mnemonic is a hymn and a warning to human empowerment and control through dermal chips and the control of biological neural networks.
reviews Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The imminent biological disintegration as a result of the radioactive catastrophe, the need for a 'belief', even if it is illusory (TV cult), the dumbing down of consciousness and ability to choose caused by the mass media.
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Ai Babybot: Awareness and presence BabyBot, was born at the robotics laboratories of the University of Genoa and is the spearhead of the ADAPT project funded by the European Commission to explore the technological frontiers of artificial intelligence.
Ai Building soldiers or re-creating the human being? The term robot was coined by the Czech writer Karel Capek. It first appeared in a novel called 'RUR' (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920). In Czech, 'robota' means 'work,' with emphasis on the fact that it is involuntary, i.e., forced, dependent work. In Polish, worker is translated as 'robotnik'.
cyberpunk Ghost in the Shell and the Root of Memory when the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a compromise between the sedentary and the nomadic ethic, then we may find ourselves, among other things, in the ostentatious reworking of Japanese director Mamoru Oshii’s famous (but virtually misunderstood) anime: Ghost in the Shell.
