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What happens if David Deutsch's theories are correct, and we're living in not just one universe but a collection of tightly parallel universes that make up a multiverse? The Web extra at http://youtu.be/sl7wr1PosHc is an audio discussion of the Science Fiction Prototyping column, in which author Brian David Johnson talks with Tony Salvador, director of Intel's Experience Insights Lab and senior principal...
Using science fiction based on science fact to prototype the human, cultural, ethical, and legal implications of early-stage research and technology allows us to envision possible futures, and to explore their effects so that we can then build them.
Everybody loves a good story. People all over the world seek out and crave entertainment. This will not change in the coming age of big data and cloud computing. But stories are more than just a distraction from the big problems of the world we are all supposed to be solving. Stories are (computationally) one of the most challenging problems facing our computers. Humans are hardcoded for story. Our...
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