People like this should be made to pay back every penny of damage, and then put into a MANDATORY public service program for 2 years where they spend WEEKENDS (no weekends off!) teaching kids in poor neighborhoods how to code, or some other socially redeemable task. For every weekend he misses, he has to make up two more - and there is no financial remuneration. If he does it again, jail!

Self-driving cars are still vaporware. If the idiots in Detroit put cars on the road that are not capable of perceiving ALL road variables, and thus cause deaths, the legislators who pass this bill; the Governor, and all senior automotive execs should be help *criminally* responsible.

Mod this guy up!

You are absolutely correct. Most people are not aware of the coming automation juggernaut; it will be unlike anything the labor sector has ever seen - and it will cause massive displacement. http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac....

Looks like the investors and senior executives of Uber are sharing...the spoils. Those people never had any overarching "vision" other than lining their pockets.

Sunny Balwani and Elizabeth Holmes; the Theranos Board; all Theranos investors; and, Theranos strategic partners and suppliers ALL need to be investigated regarding their knowledge of potential fraud and collusion. If evidence is gained showing intentional fraud from*any* one of the foregoing, jail them!

As soon as the technological means are there, universal surveillance will happen. One thing that human beings want is security, and we know from psychological studies that large population groups will put up with inconvenience - even punish themselves to some degree, financially, socially, etc. - to assure personal safety. Given that universal surveillance is going to happen, we need to start looking for ways to make it transparent, to prevent abuse. Nobody is talking about that; nobody is considering the possibility that universal surveillance might be more a good thing (with problems) than a bad thing (which everyone always assumes it will be, without qualification).

Musk is just projecting. He's a reductionist. Last, he can't prove his position. How does one prove that one is inside a simulation,when it must be assumed that the simulation is under another's control; thus,the attempt at proof,and even hunches that seek one to pursue proofs, are part of a controlled simulation?

There will be advantages and disadvantages. What's missing fromall this are powerful filters that permit parents to control who pre-teens (and even teens) can gain access to on their phones. Marketers are using technology that is incredibly powerful to reach this young demographic. Parents have no way to counteract that. Access to information is a cool thing, but what *kind* of information. DO you really want your 10-year-old son accessing the most extreme pRon sites? Trust me, many kids will go there, and we are now beginning to see some of the problems that result from just this kind of access. Also, look at the studies that point to vastly increased risks for anxiety and depression among teens who are heavy users of social media. Frankly, I think Internet access is a good thing, but it's still the Wild West out there. Parents are losing the battle to marketers.

How do the senior executives and Board members get off without some penalties. These people may have endangered the health of many thousands (or more) people!

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning" - Werner Heisenberg This applies to Tyson's comments, and all other theories about who/what/why we are. All we know is "THAT" we are (Wittgenstein).

No, this is a BAD deal. ATT has resisted - using legal threats - MANY municipal and rural efforts to put in their own broadband. I had regular DSL,then they called me and said that I had to take Uverse. I did some research and found that they were LEGALLY required to put in dry loop DSL. I had that for a year and then they told me they were going to phase it out and I had to take Uverse, for a LOT more. ATT is a thieving corporation - to the point where the company colludes to cheat and steal. They are just as bad as the banking sector. If I had a real alternative I would take it in a heartbeat!

Truer words were never spoken. Just wait until the IoT takes hold, along with distributed AIA (Advanced Artificial Intelligence) all distributed via the Internet. The Internet has turned out be largely a "top-down" broadcasting service controlled by large ISP, large content creators, etc. Of course, they let us have our blogs and our Instagrams and our pathetic little selfie opportunities for fame like Facebook, Pinterest, etc, but the Internet is FAR FAR FAR from the liberating force that it was predicted to be at its outset.

This wasn't always the case; initially, the vig players- i.e. content creators, telecommunications providers, etc. resistedthe Internet, until they discovered human being's penchant for taking control of inter-communications. THAT is when commercial enterprise powers got interested; they have now found endless ways to control the Internet and leverage our wired human propensity for communication for profit.

ESPECIALLY if you are a younger person, .go read Vanevar Bush's essay "As We May Think" http://www.theatlantic.com/mag...

or,

Ted Nelson's early ideas about the promise of the Internet Ted Nelson: "The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/...

Why doesn't IBM clarify this? How many who "left" were over 40 years old - pushed out because of age? IBM is toast!

Hopefully these hackers will be found. In addition, the hospital needs to hire some serious security experts; this never should have happened in the first place.