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There are, of course, technical hurdles along the way. Suppressing the equivalent "head" gene in man. Incubating tiny infant organs to grow into larger ones that adults could use. And creating artificial wombs (as per Aldous Huxley), given that it might be difficult to recruit sane women to carry headless...
Yet, if art films are unfairly ignored by mass audiences, more commercial films are spurned with equal injustice by self-appointed cineastes. If the artificial line drawn between "art" and "commerce" at the movies is erased, and mass audiences can be persuaded toward art films like The Wings of the...
Lewis' first step abroad was to Bophuthatswana, in South Africa. In 1991 Lewis, who by then had started a company named the Plantworks, was hired to decorate a new entertainment complex called Lost City. She produced an indoor mock version of the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Since then she has...
In 1994 Julia moved to the Web, where she's lived ever since, more or less unmolested by the two dozen souls a day who stumble across her. Mauldin, meantime, graduated from bots to spiders. A researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, he designed Lycos, one of the first search engines...
Julia is a computer program, a piece of genuine artificial intelligence with a crude front end (you type as if chatting on America Online). She is also spellbinding. Indeed, our conversation with Julia was so realistic my girls, convinced that a carbon-based life-form was doing the real typing...