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b'Phil and Stephen add a positive spin to some otherwise gloomy future scenarios.\\n\\nRichard Dawkins: A.I. Might Run the World Better Than Humans Do\\n\\nWill A.I. take us over, and one day look back on this time period as the dawn of their civilization? Richard Dawkins posits an interesting idea, or at the very least a premise to a good science-fiction novel.\\n\\nIs this the best possible time to be alive? Sounds ludicrous, right?\\n\\nHuman civilization has made immense progress \\u2014 but it may well have peaked, and now we\\u2019re staring into the abyss\\n\\nWhat we didn\'t get\\n\\nMost famously, the mid-20th century was full of visions of starships, interplanetary exploration and colonization, android servitors and flying cars, planet-busting laser cannons, energy too cheap to meter. So far we don\'t have any of that. As Peter Thiel - one of our modern cyberpunk arch-villains - so memorably put it, "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters."\\n\\nGEEKOUT\\n\\nHoping to bring VR to the multiplex, AMC joins Spielberg in backing Culver City startup\\n\\nDreamscape Immersive, the Culver City-based company co-founded by veteran producer Walter P\\u200earkes and financed in part by filmmaker Steven Spielberg, has raised $20 million from AMC Entertainment, the companies announced Tuesday, along with an additional $10 million from other parties.\\n\\nPlus: Orville vs. new Star Trek\\n\\nAlso: Time to get excited about Blade Runner 2049?\\n\\nWT 354-663'