Episode 34
David, Scott, Rym & Thaed appeared tonight along with special guest Len from Jawbone Radio. Here are the topics:
—Do people interact with their neighbors anymore? Is is seasonal?
Does the internet allow like minded people to seek each other out to a
greater level of articulation than ever before? Does that destroy the
idea of local community? Was there ever such a thing as local
community?
—Cool robot videos!
http://ostatic.com/172525-
How far away are we from having robots that do our household chores?
What are the major hurdles remaining? If you could have a
multipurpose humanoid robot, what would you make it do?
—Creating artificial life
http://blog.wired.com/
Is this something that is helpful to humans? How far away are we from
doing it? Is there any real danger?
—Does Twitter just distract and annoy?
http://www.businessweek.com/
—Do kids need to take happiness lessons?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
—Ask the Economist. (please think of something to ask David about,
if nothing else we’ll talk about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae).
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