Year: 2016
Paolo Bacigalupi Uses Fiction and Law to Debate Whether Robots Are Capable of Murder
Law prof ponders: If a highly advanced robot kills, is it murder or product liability?
Read This Slick Sci-Fi Noir Short Featuring Popular Science
Future Tense Fiction: “Mika Model,” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“The girl, the robot … this thing—I’d seen her before, all right. I’d seen her in technology news stories about advanced learning node networks…”
Futurist Brian David Johnson on The Gist Podcast
Listen to our Futurist in Residence Brian David Johnson on The Gist podcast with the inimitable Mike Pesca!
Furman students author stories about the future and sustainability
Frank Armitage Was Here
Michael G Bennett
Justice Scalia: Minor Philosopher of Technology
Michael G Bennett
Cylon Folk Wisdom
Corey S. Pressman
The Adventures of Buckminster Fuller and the Dymaxion Car: A Book Excerpt
Jonathon Keats
Talking Science Fiction and Game Design with James L. Cambias
Joey Eschrich
Teaching Bioethics With Pool Noodles
Bob Beard
Devices Like Us
Corey S. Pressman
Discovering Tomorrow with ASU’s University Futurist, Brian David Johnson
What if we had a Secretary of the Future?
Algorithms Are Like Kirk, Not Spock
When technologists describe their hotshot new system for trading stocks or driving cars, the algorithm at its heart always seems to emerge from a magical realm of Spock-like rationality and mathematical perfection. Algorithms can save lives or make money, the argument goes, because they are built on the foundations of mathematics: logical rigor, conceptual clarity, and utter consistency. Math is perfect, right? And algorithms are made out of math.