SCI-FI PORN? YES, THAT’LL BE SECTION 313 ...

Might as well get this out of the way.

By order of dr_nebula :

dEFROG's Dewey Decimal Section:

313 [Unassigned]

dEFROG = 456857 = 456+857 = 1313


Class:
300 Social Sciences


Contains:
Books on politics, economics, education and the law.



What it says about you:
You are good at understanding people and finding the systems that work for them. You like having established reasoning behind your decisions. You consider it very important for your friends to always have your back.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

At least I know I’ll have some shelf space reserved for my science fiction porn novels. Too bad print will will be dead by then, and the Dewey Decimal System rendered irrelevant.

Pigeonholed,

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DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC LAWNMOWERS?

ITEM: Osman Khan, a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon, designs a robotic sheep that mows your lawn.



The robot features GPS navigation, obstacle avoidance sensors and lawn-mowing teeth.

Probably not as fast or accurate as a John Deere riding mower, but it’ll give the neighborhood kids something new to vandalize.

Keep off the grass,

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DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC LAWNMOWERS THAT HUNT DOWN HUMANS?

Speaking of robots ...

ITEM [via Warren Ellis]: The Department of Defense has put out a call: design a pack of robots to "search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject."
 
Each robot has to weigh 100 kilograms or less, act autonomously (with a human squad leader), negotiate obstacles, and provide immediate feedback. Here’s the fun part:

The robots would report back to a human operator, and defer to that human when the robot AI determines that a "difficult decision" is required.

Genius. What could possibly go wrong?



Open season,

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