The Hip Hop Anthropologist

Sci-Fi movies beginning with 2001: A Space Odyssey, was an epic 1968 science-fiction film about a smart computer named H.A.L., who decides quite unilaterally what is in the best interest of mankind. A Space Odyssey was produced and directed by famed director Stanley Kubrick. It remains in the pantheon of the cinema, the very best movies ever created about artificial intelligence. Philosophers have long debated what constitutes intelligent life. The consensus is a "sense of self-awareness." The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. And there are AI programs, protocols, and machines that are already there. The advances are frightening in their rapidity. Space X and Tesla boss Elon Musk has become a de facto leading voice about the potential of  AI. But not as an advocate but as a detractor. Musk has said, "Mark my words — A.I....

...this is an outrageous miscarriage of justice ... ...and if the system  worked for blacks equally, the Judge would have immediately set aside the verdict in the interest of justice... you simply cannot condemn a  promising young man with absolutely no previous criminal involvement to  prison for 12-years; and, brand him with a lifetime sexual predator label when he's only 20-years old! And only had a consensual, (if ill-advised) make-out session with a 17-year-old, which is the age of consent in virtually every state of the union. That white jury didn't see him as anything other than an archetypal, hypersexual beast defiling a virtuous, little, young, corn-fed, alabaster beauty. Beauty and the beast. The King  Kong metaphor played out in a cramped courtroom surrounded by flat plains filled with endless cornfields in the heart[less]land of  America... Welcome to Kansas... After all, it was the scene of the infamous Scopes "Monkey" trial back in the day. Forget...