Humanity has dreamed about developing an intellect equal to or greater than our own since the dawn of science fiction in a story called Frankenstein. There are several movies in which, there were several artificial intelligence characters. They acted like human beings. Indeed, artificial intelligence (AI) has beyond the realms of science fiction, and it has become the optimistic forecast for developing thinking, sentient robots. From 2001 to Star Wars and everything in between, the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) has been a mainstay of the genre, as well as the objective of many real-life Shelley devotees.

Do you believe the warnings from folks like Prof. Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and others? Is AI the greatest tool humanity will ever create, or are we "summoning the demon"? To quote the head of AI at Singularity University, Neil Jacobstein, "It's not artificial intelligence I'm worried about, it's human stupidity." In a recent Abundance 360 webinar, I interviewed Bryan Johnson, the founder of a new company called Kernel which he seeded with $100 million. To quote Bryan, "It's not about AI vs. humans. In 2007, he founded Braintree, an online and mobile payments provider. In 2013, PayPal acquired Braintree for $800 million. In 2014, Bryan launched the OS Fund with $100 million of his personal capital to support inventors and scientists who aim to benefit humanity by rewriting the operating systems of life. His investments include endeavors to cure age-related diseases and radically extend healthy human life to 100 (Human Longevity Inc.), replicate the human visual cortex using ...

Can a sci-fi-themed, classic rock musical stand measure to measure with Shakespeare? "Return to the Forbidden Planet" at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura seeks to boldly go where no outer space retelling of "The Tempest" has gone before, and it even has the rhyming pentameter to prove it. Blasting off to the spirited live band's pulsating, guitar-twangy strains of "Wipe Out," this zero-gravitas parody is a rockin' homage to the extraterrestrial tropes embodied in the 1956 classic movie "Forbidden Planet." After a meteor storm diverts a rocket ship to planet D'Illyria, the crew encounters the exiled mad scientist Prospero (James O'Neil), whose mind-over-matter formula unleashes a green-tentacled monster from his own id. Quickly making up for the absence of men in her life by turning the heads of the entire crew with her entrance to "Good Vibrations," Miranda and her suitors (Harley Jay and Caleb Horst) tunefully explore their emotional roller coasters in "A Teenager in Love," "Young Girl," "She's Not There," "Tell Her" and other hits.