[Mindjack Release] March 10, 2003

[Donald Melanson]

Mindjack Release -- March 10, 2003
http://www.mindjack.com


In the new issue of Mindjack:

More Machine than Flesh
a review essay of Rodney Brooks's Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will 
Change Us
by J. Johnson

Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us is the latest book by 
Rodney Brooks, Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The author’s affiliation is telling. 
It informs the reader of Brooks’ academic and research accomplishments 
and, in addition, it prepares him or her for the enthusiastic, techno 
sophisticated view of the world for which the MIT is well known.

http://www.mindjack.com/books/fleshmachines.html

Games:
Splinter Cell for Xbox
reviewed by Jane Pinckard and Justin Hall

There is something creepily naïve about a game which unproblematically 
posits you, protagonist Sam Fisher, as a willing and deathly efficient 
tool of an ultra-secret U.S. government organization in a setting rife 
with contemporary geo-political machinations.

http://www.mindjack.com/games/sc.html

Gear:
Vonage Digital Voice Phone Service
reviewed by Raffi Krikorian

Raffi takes a look at the latest attempt to bring telephone over the 
Internet.

http://www.mindjack.com/gear/vonage.html