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Hi - I am giving away free copies of my book The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law , to anyone willing to read it and then Tweet, Facebook etc about what they think of it? It will be sent to you direct from the publishers if you're in the US or direct from me if you're in the UK.

The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law, is now being featured on kickstarter ! Please come and support us and get this animated film done. I am offering the first stage in the production process - the making of a trailer to help us raise the funds needed for project completion. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/655904664/the-vast-and-gruesome-clutch-of-our-law

This little book, the follow up to The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law, has now (at last), been published for Apple iPad/iBooks, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and most e-reading apps including Stanza, Aldiko, Adobe Digital Editions, and others. The link is below: Synopsis: When the Sun comes to the end of its life the rich and privileged use superior technology to leave the earth and go in search of new planets; their fate unclear. The poor, the uneducated, the sick are left behind in the dust and certainty of death in the face of an expanding, Super Red Sun. Nathan and Kiren have been a couple since they were children. In their small dusty town they struggle to survive. And up against their large and chaotic families they turn to each other. Feeling unloved and unwanted they are told by the local Imam that they must go to the Great Hall and without a choice, they set off into the desert to find the Great Hall and to find themselves. http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/312876...

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Robots need processing power and in the current stage of robot technology, it is hard to carry all that processing power in one small robot head (or body). So European scientists have developed, what they hope will be a standard for online 'brains', where the robot in question is constantly consulting an online encyclopedia which contains information on objects it may encounter, speech and conversations of people and other information, from which it can learn to navigate its world. It is an important step in the development of robot technology in that it enables these machines, to go beyond their onboard capacity, when completing tasks. The system was developed by European Robo Earth project, shared by five different European research labs. It utilises cloud computing. " The system could be particularly useful for drones, self-driving cars or other mobile robots who have to do a lot of number crunching just to get round", said Mohanarajah Gajamohan, technical head o...

I think that technology is moving into a new era. My paper looks at the future of the Internet, as mobile technology revolutionises machine to machine communications, health care and the development of democracy, albeit in its very early stages. Robot technology for example is beginning to take shape. Our relationships with data, for good or bad, is causing social and economic change at a staggering rate. On the one hand it has created Internet giants, like Google, who grow increasingly controlling and manipulative of peoples online lives, while at the same time providing stunning technology and access to information, which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Channel 4, has recently launched what it called a Data Baby, to monitor the power and influence of Internet companies, who are dominating and using our data, to sell us things, spy on us and direct us to websites of companies that have paid Google to favour them in searches: Meet Rebecca Taylor: Robot techno...

This paper presents a range of ideas about internet based artificial intelligence, whether it’s possible, whether it is already conscious, given its size and complexity and if not how we might build an internet based artificial intelligence, including suggested architecture, applications and management of an AI system. Also the political aspects and ideas for the future of internet AI. http://www.vagabond-unlimited.co.uk/#!internet-based-ai/c42i