dystopia
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This ‘Smart’ Light Bulb Video Is A Great Reminder That Living In The Future Is A Nightmare
People of the 20th century imagined that Americans of the future, would be zipping around in flying cars and jetpacks. Instead, we’ve got a plummeting life expectancy, the rise of measles, and even a resurgence of concentration camps on U.S. soil.
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Mortal Engines Is A Dystopian Drama That’s Several Years Too Late
Much like the toasters, smartphones, and dystopian fiction, and “strong female characters” were little more than toughened blank slates. Mortal Engines might take place thousands of years in the future, but it’s a movie that’s stuck in the past.
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Ford Files Patent For Autonomous Robocop Car That Learns How To Hide From Drivers
The US Patent Office recently published a patent by Ford for an autonomous police vehicle that could be programmed with “machine learning tools (e.g., deep neural networks) to find good hiding spots to catch violators of traffic laws”. First spotted by Motor 1, the patent – which represents more of a moonshot project than a pending…
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Silicon Valley Can’t Stop Puking Money All Over Soylent
Soylent, a substance, is about to be everywhere. A team of queasy venture capitalists just invested $US50 million ($67.5 million) into the company. This, despite the fact that Soylent is perhaps best known for lying about its ingredients and giving people fits of relentless vomiting and uncontrollable diarrhoea.