Cool Noise: Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories and Giorgio Moroder
Daft Punk became popular in the 1990s and is credited with some of the biggest hits of the French house music scene, including Phoenix and Rollin’ and Scratchin’. Audiences in …
Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Robot Musicians
A whimsical and eye-opening tour of robots performing. Your printer won’t be going on tour soon, but technology is improving! First up, a cover of Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger …
Quote for Today: Steven Pinker
Today’s ubiquitous, networked computers have an unprecedented ability to do mischief should they ever go to the bad. But the only mayhem comes from unpredictable chaos or from human malice …
Into the Uncanny Valley: Hiroshi Ishiguro’s Geminoids and Telenoids
Why do we possess an instinctive fear of androids? Are we prepared for the questions and issues these robots inspire? You may or may not be familiar with the uncanny …
Quote for Today: Tim Burton
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, “What have you done to my boy? He’s not flesh and blood, he’s aluminum alloy!” The doctor said gently, “What I’m going to say …
Quote for Today: Russell Brand
Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in …