Some Interesting Reading

Over the last two days some friends of mine have posted a couple of links on Facebook which relate to what we are learning and researching about with this course so I thought I would share them on this blog.

First one was an article called Invest in immortality: billionaire.
In Russia, Dmitry Itskov, a 31-year-old media mogul, has come up with a plan to make himself and others live forever by transferring human consciousness into a robot body.



His prediction is :
1. By 2025, scientists will be able to transfer the human brain into a robotic skeleton.
2. By 2035, an avatar brain will be created and your personality inserted within.
3. By 2045, humans will walk around in holographic avatars that will never die.

Could his plan come true? Or is he just an avid Avatar fan?

The second article a friend posted was about Kuratas a giant, gun toting, robot designed and made in Japan. It has been designed to be piloted by humans. On their website they say:
"THE MOST ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEM

Kuratas has the AE "V-Sido", the control system of the computer technology is watched by all world with interest. Not only operating by boarding the pilot’s seat, but also enabling you to control and interact Kuratas with Kinect. Moreover, without taking a professional training such as a combat plane, people can operate it easily. Furthermore, you can control Kuratas via the mobile 3G Internet access."

 

I wonder if Kuratas would be any good for the army?