William Grassie (Metanexus): Millennialism at the Singularity: Reflections on Metaphors, Meanings, and the Limits of Exponential Logic. From Good, the introduction to a series on the singularity. A school for changing the world: Students at Singularity University in Silicon Valley have just finished a course with the lofty aim of helping humanity deal with future technology challenges (and more). Will our robot overlords be friendly?: Ronald Bailey attends the Singularity Summit in New York City (and more at Wired). Can bots feel joy?: Will machines ever really feel, in the same sense that humans do? Rad Robots looks back to the future with a lavishly illustrated celebration of the robot, an alternately utopian and nightmarish image of man's technological future that has endured for nearly a century. Will emerging

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