Growing Old in a Mechanized World

Robot ethics: Mapping the issues for a mechanized world

As with other emerging technologies, advanced robotics brings with it new ethical and policy challenges. This paper will describe the flourishing role of robots in society—from security to sex—and survey the numerous ethical and social issues, which we locate in three broad categories: safety & errors, law & ethics, and social impact. We discuss many

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...

On Growing Old

greater pleasure in that it enables me to renew an acquaintance with a City?and a University?with which I have had such pleasant associations. I want to use the ?Pportunity to discuss with you some of the problems of ageing, both subjective and ??jective, individual and social, but I must hasten to make it clear that my approach be descriptive rather than hortatory, and that it is no part of my...

Parents Growing Old

Growing Old with Myc

The Myc proto-oncogene has been intensively studied in tumorigenesis and development. A new paper in Cell reports the role of Myc as a determinant of mammalian longevity. Myc heterozygous mice exhibit extended lifespans resulting from alterations in multiple cellular processes distinct from those observed in other longevity models.