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...Dick, who wrote frequently about guys who don't realize they're robots. But Jones, 38, isn't just riffling these oeuvres in order to riff on them. He's long been fascinated by the evolving identity of man in the cyber-era. In 1995, as a philosophy major at the College of Wooster, he wrote a thesis entitled How to Kill Your Computer Friend: An Investigation of the Mind/Body Problem and How It Relates to the Hypothetical Creation of a Thinking Machine. (See TIME's Survey: 80 Years of Hollywood Robots...
...Bowie's Space Oddity, from 1969, takes its punning title from the Kubrick movie the year before. Released nine days before the Apollo 11 moon landing, and played by the BBC in its coverage of the event, it describes the communication of a lonely astronaut: "This is Major Tom to Ground Control... / Here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world./ Planet Earth is blue,/ And there's nothing I can do. / Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, / I'm feeling very still... / Tell my wife I love her very much. / She knows." Maybe Bowie...
...rejection of the laws, along with the growing unpopularity of other proposed restrictions, shows that governments will have to tread carefully when legislating - and there may have to be some major changes to way Europeans think about copyright...
...Despite Africa's being a major focus of G-8, the group includes no African leaders - nor China, whose investment in African infrastructure exceeds that of all the G-8 countries combined. Singer Bob Geldof urged on Thursday that the discussion be widened, warning that unless more countries are at the table in international decision-making, "our system will fail again." (See pictures of China doing business in Africa...
...Administration's position leaves Israel little wiggle room on settlements - a huge problem for a right wing-led government whose coalition agreement is premised on continued construction in the occupied territories. And as he shapes up to deliver a major policy address Sunday billed as a response to Obama, Netanyahu is feeling the heat. Israeli media have reported aides to the prime minister complaining that the White House is seeking a confrontation with Israel in order to ease anti-American hostility in the Muslim world, and even that Obama is seeking "regime-change" in Israel. (Read 'Why We Should Start...