Rampaging Robots and Killer Komodos
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2006
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is presented by eBay. |
| 0:03.7 | Rob, everyone loves a deal and a bargain from time to time, don't they? Absolutely, mate. And you know where you can grab a great deal? Talk to me. Where? The eBay app. Yes, you are correct. You didn't need to talk to me. I already knew it. I love eBay. When you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. there's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. |
| 0:23.7 | Then when you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. There's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. Then when you're selling, it's so simple and most |
| 0:25.9 | importantly, free. It's free, Rob. When it's this easy to sell for free and there's great deals |
| 0:31.6 | on things you love. You can't help but say when it's eBay. It excludes vehicles and business |
| 0:35.9 | sellers. |
| 0:42.9 | Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American. For the seven days starting December 27th, I'm Steve Merski. This week on the podcast, Kurt Alfenberg will talk about |
| 0:48.6 | wrangling Komodo dragons. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. |
| 0:54.0 | First up, though, |
| 0:54.9 | robots. Bill Gates is the author of the cover story of the January issue of Scientific American |
| 1:00.3 | called a robot in every home. The article is also available free on our website, www.syam.com. To accompany |
| 1:08.5 | the Bill Gates piece, I spoke with PhD roboticist Daniel Wilson. |
| 1:13.3 | He's the author of the book, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Tips on Defending Yourself |
| 1:19.3 | Against the Coming Rebellion. |
| 1:21.1 | You know, just in case the robot's in every home try to take over the world. |
| 1:24.9 | I called Wilson at his home in Portland, Oregon. Hey, Dan, thanks for |
| 1:29.2 | talking to us today. Thanks for having me, Steve. You've got your PhD in robotics from Carnegie |
| 1:34.0 | Mellon, so what did you do your actual research on for your doctorate? Eupiquitous computing. So this is |
| 1:39.6 | the idea that the regular interface that people have with computers, which is pretty unnatural, |
| 1:44.2 | you sit in front of it, you type at a keyboard. |
| 1:46.7 | Humans aren't really designed to do any of that. |
| 1:49.1 | The idea behind you because of computing is that all of those computing resources |
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