The Lonely (1/3)

In 2050, your lover may be a ... robot

http://www.physorg.com/news132727834.html

WALL•E Greets Newseum Visitors

http://www.newseum.org/news/newseum_videos/video.aspx?item=nv_WALL080602&style=f

America's Medicated Army

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0%2C8599%2C1811858%2C00.html?redux



From Time Magazine:

"Seven months after Sergeant Christopher LeJeune started scouting Baghdad's dangerous roads — acting as bait to lure insurgents into the open so his Army unit could kill them — he found himself growing increasingly despondent. "We'd been doing some heavy missions, and things were starting to bother me," LeJeune says. His unit had been protecting Iraqi police stations targeted by rocket-propelled grenades, hunting down mortars hidden in dark Baghdad basements and cleaning up its own messes. He recalls the order his unit got after a nighttime firefight to roll back out and collect the enemy dead. When LeJeune and his buddies arrived, they discovered that some of the bodies were still alive. "You don't always know who the bad guys are," he says. "When you search someone's house, you have it built up in your mind that these guys are terrorists, but when you go in, there's little bitty tiny shoes and toys on the floor — things like that started affecting me a lot more than I thought they would." "

U.S. Military Gets Newest Kill-Bot

From Wired Magazine:

The U.S. military's small, but growing, arsenal of armed robots has a new addition. Bot-maker Foster-Miller has shipped the first of its new killer machines to the Defense Department's Combatting Terrorism Technology Support Office.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/us-military-get.html#more

Pupils 'will soon be able to download lessons directly into their brains'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1023153/Pupils-soon-able-download-lessons-directly-brains.html

Children will learn by downloading information directly into their brains within 30 years, the head of Britain's top private schools organisation predicted today.

Chris Parry, the new chief executive of the Independent Schools Council, said "Matrix-style" technology would render traditional lessons obsolete.

He told the Times Educational Supplement: "It's a very short route from wireless technology to actually getting the electrical connections in your brain to absorb that knowledge."