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A BBC report on the future of robots and ethics.

Sometime last quarter, I happened to come home early from Mason’s class and catch a show called Heroes. It runs Monday night on NBC, and it’s one of the best new shows I’ve seen in a while.

I missed about the first five minutes of the show, but at the end, the announcer said, in his dramatic grumble, that the most recent episode was available to watch online. So, for weeks, I would watch the show every Tuesday morning, until the show took a mid-season break, convienently coinciding with my break from school.

When I got back, I tried to watch the first new show the day after it aired, but my network had major problems that day, and it wouldn’t run smoothly at all. Eventually, I talked myself into buying the season pass from iTunes, and it was well worth it. Tuesday morning, when the new show is released, iTunes will automatically download each new episode. It’s been my first experience with buying content online, and I’ve enjoyed it. We still live with network connections and processors that haven’t yet anticipated what the internet is and will become. I look forward to a time when content is on demand at any time, from anywhere, but for now, having content on portable device ready to be viewed is alright.

But it makes you think: If live television programming goes away, or plays a diminished role, how would you find new content? If I hadn’t been home and caught the show that day, or if Fox didn’t put The Winner in between  The Simpsons and Family Guy, I probably never would have watched it in all it’s moderate humor.

Anyways, if you’ve got about 18 hours to kill, go to http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/ and watch all 18 episodes. It’s just about the best show I’ve ever seen.

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A few months ago, a school bus fell off of an over-pass near where my brother lives, in Huntsville, AL. I know exactly where it happened. In fact, it was actually at the exit off of I-565 that I take to go to his house.

Today, I woke up to helicopters over-head because a bus fell off the over-pass of I-75 @ Northside drive, the exit I take to come home.

These are two separate tragedies that have occured at very busy intersections, caused in part by how dangerous we have made this world. I’ve experienced the fall-out from far too many auto wrecks personally. So, if you ever notice me critiquing your driving while riding in your car, I’ve got a pretty good reason to do so.