Can You Rape a Robot? — Backchannel. Will a robot marry your daughter? Should you tip a robot? Can you rape a robot? Just ask the author of “Humans Need Not Apply.” Jerry Kaplan, a long-time entrepreneur and Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, has weighed in on the Great Robot Controversy with a book called Humans Need Not Apply. Kaplan doesn’t believe that robots will be conscious anytime soon, or maybe ever. But he thinks it doesn’t matter. As they become more cognitively dexterous, and assume more and more tasks once reserved for humans, he contends, robots will have legal rights and responsibilities: they will be able to own property, and may be punished for malfeasance.
According to Kaplan, we really don’t have a choice in the matter. In Humans Need Not Apply, Kaplan envisions a happy future for humans, with robots doing both the literal and figurative heavy lifting. These machines may offer us unprecedented leisure and freedom as they take over our hard and unpleasant work. You have a kid, right? No. Instagram. ‘Donut Selfie’, The Next Big Thing? Photo by neilcarty.
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The Seven Core Tenets of Anticonventional Thinking. I fear business innovation has moved from being (first) a business process seriously practised by a few businesses to (second) being an understood need in the world of business to (finally and currently) being a buzz-word that is in great danger of becoming a ridiculous and meaningless word. A few days ago, I read an article that was supposedly about innovation – but seemed to me to be about market research.
While I appreciate that the implementation of ideas that result from learnings from market research might be innovation. The market research is not – unless it is successfully done in a creative new way that generates value to the business. For instance, plugging people’s brains into computers in order to determine what they truly desire, as opposed to what they claim they desire, might be innovative (if it works). But traditional market research is not innovation. Innovation This Manager, Innovation That Manager Too Many Innovation Blogs Innovation No Longer About Innovation? Has Innovation Lost Its Meaning? Let’s Bounce A Few Ideas Off Each Other. 32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow - Interactive Feature. Nike allies with Xbox 360 for Nike+ Kinect Training: real-time feedback, training reminders through your phone. Xbox and Nike Team Up to Revolutionize Fitness at Home "Nike+ Kinect Training" brings a world-class Nike experience into your home.
LOS ANGELES, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) today, Microsoft Corp. and NIKE Inc. ushered in a new era of home fitness, unveiling "Nike+ Kinect Training" only on Kinect for Xbox 360. Featuring Nike trainers who work with some of the company's top athletes, "Nike+ Kinect Training" is a custom training program rooted in elite Nike fitness and specifically designed to help athletes of all levels reach their potential in the comfort of their own homes. Whatever your fitness goal, "Nike+ Kinect Training" will give you the tools to get you there. Through the magic of Kinect, the personal trainers within the experience can see how your body moves, assess your physical strengths and athleticism, identify areas for improvement, and create a personalized workout plan to help you achieve your personal best.