Coincidence? On the flight back from Australia, I read on article in Wired about “affective computing” - essentially giving computers/software emotional intelligence, feelings and so on. Just a few days before, I sat in on Phil Harrison’s (of Sony) keynote lecture within which he spoke extensively about making games more emotional, that future Sony tech will have the processing power to create true artificial intelligence, etc, etc. Even cooler still, advances to EyeToy that would allow it to detect a player’s emotions!

Interesting how in that same issue of Wired, we hear from uber-techy Bill Joy on the potential problems of runaway technology. I guess he didn’t factor in true love found via tech, nor the “soft” machines everyone wants to cuddle up to ;)