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Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

http://singularityhub.com/2009/07/28/scientists-worry-machines-may-outsmart-man/

100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/100-years-of-big-content-fearing-technologyin-its-own-words.ars

Excerpt:

In 1906, famous composer John Philip Sousa took to Appleton's Magazine to pen an essay decrying the latest piratical threat to his livelihood, to the entire body politic, and to "musical taste" itself. His concern? The player piano and the gramophone, which stripped the life from real, human, soulful live performances.

"From the days when the mathematical and mechanical were paramount in music, the struggle has been bitter and incessant for the sway of the emotional and the soulful," he wrote. "And now in this the twentieth century come these talking and playing machines and offer again to reduce the expression of music to a mathematical system of megaphones, wheels, cogs, disks, cylinders, and all manner of revolving things which are as like real art as the marble statue of Eve is like her beautiful living breathing daughters."

In fact, things were so bad that amateur music-making was threatened, something that could lead indirectly to the rampant sissification of the entire country. "Under such conditions," Sousa believed, "the tide of amateurism cannot but recede until there will be left only the mechanical device and the professional executant. Singing will no longer be a fine accomplishment; vocal exercises so important a factor in the curriculum of physical culture will be out of vogue. Then what of the national throat? Will it not weaken? What of the national chest? Will it not shrink?"

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile

http://vimeo.com/6747788

Military Researchers Develop Corpse-Eating Robots

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/07/military-researchers-develop-corpse-eating-robots/

Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Stalins-halfman-halfape-superwarriors.2688011.jp

According to Moscow newspapers, Stalin told the scientist: "I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat."

We're one-tenth human Rest of the body is a swarm of foreign microbes

Rest of the body is a swarm of foreign microbes

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/were-one-tenth-human-59601992.html