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extie-dasilva (67)in #opinion • 4 years ago
Where Are The Amazon Robots (Part two)
WHERE ARE THE AMAZON ROBOTS? (Part two) In part one of this series, it was noted that anecdotes about working in Amazon warehouses tended not to mention robots. The essay went…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #opinion • 4 years ago
Where Are The Amazon Robots?
WHERE ARE THE AMAZON ROBOTS? I have recently been watching Vlogs posted by YouTubers sharing anecdotes about their experience of working for Amazon. Certain themes cropped up…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #opinion • 4 years ago
What Videogames Teach Us Abour Work 1.5
WHAT VIDEOGAMES TEACH US ABOUT WORK 1.5 A while ago, an article was written for i newspaper by Will Tanner, in which it was reported that a Universal Basic Income experiment…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #history • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Curious Science: Celestial Bed
EXTROPIA’S CURIOUS SCIENCE: CELESTIAL BED If you dare peek in your email’s spam folder, there’s a fair chance that you’ll find one or two promotions for something that…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #opinion • 4 years ago
Driverless cars are about more than driverless cars
DRIVERLESS CARS ARE ABOUT MORE THAN DRIVERLESS CARS. Ever since DARPA issued a challenge to roboticists to get vehicles to drive themselves across miles of desert terrain and…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #technology • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Mad-Tech: Computer Terminal
EXTROPIA’S MAD-TECH: “COMPUTER TERMINAL” Here’s a vision of the future that looks really antiquated now. This guy appears to be operating a computer terminal of some kind.…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #snapshot • 4 years ago
The Sights Of Second Life
THE SIGHTS OF SECOND LIFE Welcome to my occasional series where I report on anything that caught my eye in the online world of Second Life. Well, here’s something that…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #retro • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Retro-Gaming: Altered Beast
EXTROPIA’S RETRO-GAMING: ALTERED BEAST If you had purchased a Sega Megadrive (known as ‘Genesis’ in the US) in 1989, then there’s a fair chance you will have played the game…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #poem • 4 years ago
Poem From No Man’s Sky
POEM FROM NO MAN’S SKY A lone figure standing still, Amidst the sight of a heavenly sphere, Nature’s splendour bends the will, Of anyone who would stop here. Take in…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #history • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Curious Science: Perpetual Motion
EXTROPIA’S CURIOUS SCIENCE: PERPETUAL MOTION Anyone who has used any kind of machine knows that eventually it runs out of juice. Cars need refuelling, clockwork needs winding…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #funny • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Mad-Tech: Metal Giants
EXTROPIA’S MAD-TECH: “METAL GIANTS” When the enemy forces are darkening the skies of Blighty’s capital, who you gonna call? No, not the Ghostbusters, but rather colossal metal…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #retro • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Retro-Gaming: Vixen
EXTROPIA’S RETRO-GAMING: VIXEN ‘Vixen’ was published by Martech and released for the Spectrum and C64 in the late ‘80s. The gameplay had the player take control of the…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #poem • 4 years ago
Poem From No Man’s Sky
POEM FROM NO MAN’S SKY Flying over dusty hills That fade into mist at horizon’s end, An alien creature’s lonely trills, Call out like one who is seeking a friend. But…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #discussion • 4 years ago
Anatomy Of A Film Scene
ANATOMY OF A FILM SCENE In this article, I thought I would write about a movie scene that particularly impresses me. The one I have in mind is the transformation sequence from…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #science • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Curious Science: The Baghdad Battery
EXTROPIA’S CURIOUS SCIENCE: THE BAGHDAD BATTERY When was the battery first invented? Were I to hazard a guess, I would suppose that batteries were invented at some point in…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #history • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Mad-Tech: Fallout Shelter
EXTROPIA’S MAD-TECH: “FALLOUT SHELTER” The image seen in this instalment of ‘mad tech’ is something of a departure from previous episodes. Those have tended to be illustrations…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #retro • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Retro-Gaming: AVP
EXTROPIA’S RETRO-GAMING: AVP AVP or Aliens Versus Predator was a special game for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was released for the Atari Jaguar, a supposed 64bit games…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #story • 4 years ago
NMS: The Next Adventurer Chapter 29
NMS: THE NEXT ADVENTURER CHAPTER 29: THE FACTORY Days past and Taebaker set itself up in the weapons research facility. Noma walked in to find it designing various hand-held…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #fringe • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Curious Science: Thoughtography
EXTROPIA’S CURIOUS SCIENCE: THOUGHTOGRAPHY Fans of ‘The X-Files’ may recall an episode from Season 4 called ‘Unruhe’. In this episode, Mulder and Scully are on the hunt for a…
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extie-dasilva (67)in #funny • 4 years ago
Extropia’s Mad-Tech: Gyroelectric Destroyer
EXTROPIA’S MAD-TECH: GRYOELECTRIC DESTROYER World War I was the first war to see the deployment of the tank. As you can see from this illustration, somebody also thought it…
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