âThe development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldnât compete, and would be superseded.â
We might not have the superfast travel technology but the year 2015 has a lot to offer and watch out for. Elections, Star Wars, Eurozone, and S6 are some expected events and releases which the world will look forward to.
Kinesics is an exciting yet complicated science of behavioural patterns in non-verbal communication. To understand the body movements and signs, experts need to take into consideration cultural and environmental differences. Anyone who is unfamiliar with the cultural nuances of the body language has every chance to misinterpret what they see.
Twitter and Facebook rate events and bring us news according to interest and clicks. Twitter trends and newsfeeds spread more information than TV news anchors, so itâs definitely more interesting to start to see the year through the eyes of the Internet.
As a speculative fiction writer, one of my favourite genres of film is science fiction. For those of you who havenât seen the 1997 film Gattaca, starring Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, it is a dystopian tale about a society that has flourished on the idea that children can be made genetically superior by being designed pre-insemination.
A recent front-page cover of a leading BC newspaper caught my attention this week. It askedâor rather, advertised the questionâif there were âradicalizedâ individuals in your neighbourhood. After the tragic shooting in Ottawa last month, many Canadians remain curious, cautious, and even frightened of the possibility of domestic terrorism in their communities.
Scientifically, de-extinction is the process of reviving or bringing back an extinct species and then breeding the population. In the case of a living organism, extinction means âdied-outâ and de-extinction is the reversal of this process.
The Canadian Womenâs Foundation states that an Angus Reid Omnibus Survey reports â67 per cent of all Canadians say they personally know at least one woman who has been sexually or physically assaulted.â This is a personal account of domestic abuse from an anonymous contributor.
As a college student, there is never a better time than now to discover. Discover the world, discover your dreams, and discover relationships and friendships more meaningful than those of the past. But what many college students arenât ready to discover is parenthood.
No matter how one celebrates the holiday season, purchasing gifts for the modern girl has become an issue. Whether you are family, an educator, or even a babysitter, getting gifts for young girls nowadays is more complicated than just grabbing a Barbie off the shelves.
