03-14-14 -- Drew Phillips - Michael Belfiore - (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED)
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2014-03-14 Hour 1 Freedom's Phoenix Headline News from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.
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2014-03-14 Hour 2 Drew Phillips from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.
Drew Phillips – Launch Aviator of BitcoinNotBombs.Com
- Activist, entrepreneur, freelance Videographer/Editor. Having been involved with a few alternative currency models revolving around silver and gold, it wasn’t hard to see bitcoin’s potential to challenge state run banking. After looking around the bitcoin space for a place to jump in, it made sense to start a coalition of bitcoin users with a Voluntaryist / libertarian perspective. Bitcoin will face many challenges in the next few years if it is to become a successful global currency, and due to the decentralized nature of the bitcoin protocol, it has the potential to overcome the biggest and most violent challenge faced by alternative currencies: the state. T: @BitcoinNotBombs bitcoin
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2014-03-14 Hour 3 Michael Belfiore from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.
Michael Belfiore is an author, journalist, and speaker on the innovations shaping our world. He has written about game-changing technologies for the New York Times, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian, Air & Space, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and other outlets. He is an International Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award finalist.
Michael has appeared as a commentator on the Fox Business Network, Bloomberg Radio and TV, CNN, CTV’s Canada AM, NPR’s Marketplace and Morning Edition, Showtime’s Penn & Teller: BS!, and C-SPAN. He has delivered his message of change to audiences at Noblis, Medtronic, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Rutgers University, and other organizations.
Michael’s Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space is the first book to chronicle the birth of the commercial space age and show how innovative companies are radically changing how we reach space and creating potentially vast new markets in the process.
His book The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs is the first book to go behind the scenes at the Pentagon agency that gave us the Internet, the first satellite positioning system, and many other game-changing innovations.
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Aeon Magazine published my extended essay on humanoid robots today.
At 3.7k words, it’s feature length, and enough room for me to go into depth about the state of the art of these machines that are poised to invade our lives, and what the future holds for them.
The setting is the DARPA Robotics Challenge, or DRC, Trials held near Miami in December. Sixteen teams from around the world brought their robots to compete in such apparently mundane tasks as walking across uneven terrain, opening doors, and…driving a car.
But this is just the beginning. If the DRC goes the way of DARPA’s autonomous car races, we’ll see these bots clomping around in our streets, workplaces, and homes within a few years. They’ll respond to high-level commands from humans who direct them from afar, rather than remote-controlling them in the conventional sense.
Are we ready for autonomous humanoid robots? Like it or not, they’re coming.
From my story:
The robots of the DRC will be back on the field as early as this December, most likely much, much more capable than before, after their teams have a further year to work on improving the hardware and software that drives them. The eight best teams from the DRC Trials are in line for DARPA funding to help them along, but many of the others, including the all-volunteer team Mojavaton, will continue on their own dime, undaunted. Immediately at stake is a $2 million prize from DARPA. But more than that, the competition promises to launch yet another DARPA project from the realm of science fiction into the mainstream by once again proving the seemingly impossible to be, in fact, possible. The repercussions will be profound – our squeamishness about autonomous machines notwithstanding.