Author Archives: Crystal Loehman

http://qz.com/426253/scientists-have-made-enough-animal-robots-to-fill-a-terrifying-zoo/ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/9-biomimetic-robots-act-animals-article-1.2094006 I have provided links above to various robotic animals, each with it’s own ability. I think it is interesting to consider the vast difference between these inventions and what we considered an animal robots as children (Tickle Me … Continue reading →

While reading through various articles about singularity, I settled on a book by Ray Kurzweil called The Singularity Is Near. While I didn’t read the book, I read a few different summaries of the book. The link for Wikipedia’s summary is … Continue reading →

My Second Life journey started when I picked my avatar; I simply went with the one that looked most like me because it felt most comfortable. I noticed there were more male avatars than female, and wondered if more males … Continue reading →

My example of hyperreal was a touched up photo of a model. Photoshop is often used to blur the line between real and fabricated, and that is done exceptionally well with photos of individuals for magazines and other media sources. … Continue reading →

The first link is the link to the ELIZA program, which is acting as a psychoanalyst. It’s entertaining to play around and see how the program responds. http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3 This next link is an interesting article I found that shows the … Continue reading →