“We wanted to give her an underdog character, struggling to make it in a world of humans.”
Kevin Snipes, who helped write the character of Valerie, the world’s first electronic receptionist with a personality, manning the phones at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (CNN.com, 23 February)
“Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life…Once again, warfare would define human life.”
A report by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall on the implications of climate change, commissioned by the Pentagon’s defence adviser, Andrew Marshall (The Observer, London, 22 February)
“Although the Bush administration is hardly the first to politicise science, no administration in recent memory has so…
