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Humans are so yesterday
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Thanks Sat for bringing this to my attention:
full article:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html?pagewanted=1&src=busln
Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday
By ASHLEE VANCE Published: June 11, 2010 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
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Quote:ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen.
While the flesh-and-blood version of Mr. Brin sat miles away at a computer capable of remotely steering a robot, the gizmo rolling around here consisted of a printer-size base with wheels attached to a boxy, head-height screen glowing with an image of Mr. Brin’s face. The BrinBot obeyed its human commander and sputtered around from group to group, talking to attendees about Google and other topics via a videoconferencing system. |
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