My top 5 science fiction inventions

When considering my top five science fiction inventions I have tried to leave out the obvious that form the backbone of science fiction.  Those are of course space travel and in particular faster than light […]

Robots, androids and intelligent machines – what next?

I wrote a blog with this same title back in September 2012, with the added caveat, ‘do we want them to look human’ rather than, ‘what next?’.  It seems that this is a subject that […]

What happens when robots and machines are smarter than us?

I’ve written a number of blogs that look at the issues around our (that is human) relationship with ever smarter machine intelligences and it continues to be a subject that fascinates me.  I think it […]

What does an android want from life?

What would a human like android want from life? Or are we humans just being mean making them look like us?

Robots, androids and intelligent machines – do we want them to look human?

Science fiction has always featured Robots – but do we want really want intelligent machines to look like us?