Caminhos para utopia iconoclasta

Estudo da Eficácia do Método de Diversidade de Caminhos para Aplicações Multimı́dia

A number of works have addressed methods to cope with the poor quality of service of the Internet. One of the proposed methods is to stream data using distinct paths connecting the source and the receiver to achieve better end-to-end loss behavior. One of the main advantages of this technique (called path diversity) resides in the fact that it is neither based on adding redundancy to the origin...

Ambient Utopia

This chapter presents an analysis of the ambitions that lie behind the concept of Ambient Intelligence as it is presented by the advocates and researchers working in the field. In particular it looks at the ideas regarding the forms of natural and intuitive forms of interaction that are envisaged including agents and robots from a philosophical perspective. The views on interaction are analysed...

Engineering Utopia

The likely advent of AGI and the long-established trend of improving computational hardware promise a dual revolution in coming decades: machines which are both more intelligent and more numerous than human beings. This possibility raises substantial concern over the moral nature of such intelligent machines, and of the changes they will cause in society. Will we have the chance to determine th...

Utopia Rising

Dialogue--A New Utopia?