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		Nexttv talks with artists at "The Art of Extreme Robotics: Showcasing Limits of Human-Machine Interaction" to explore the new and interesting world of robot art. I'm interested in, in artists who are not stuck in the old media. These are artists who are very, very curious and concerned about contemporary scientific and technological culture. … They learn these fields of research, and then they develop crazy art based on what they find out, and it doesn't look like the art of even 10 years ago. - Stephen Wilson, Professor of Conceptual and Information Arts, San Francisco State University
WEBSITES: Survival Researh Labs Simon Penny Christian Ristow Eric Paulos Stephen Wilson BOOKS: 'Information Arts - Intersections of Art, Science and Technology,' MIT Press, 2002 Stephen Wilson

		A pioneer of ecological activism and co-founder of Greenpeace, Nexttv talks to Robert Hunter about his latest book on climate change "2030 - Confronting Thermageddon in Our Lifetime". 15 years ago scientists were warning that next to nuclear war the second biggest threat are runaway greenhouse effects and the scary part of that is that we could avoid nuclear war by not pressing the button. With climate change half a billion ignition keys get turned on every year and tens of thousands gargantuan smoke stacks are belching carbon dioxide 24 hours a day it was easier to avoid nuclear war then easier to avoid a climate catastrophe. That's the really scary part. - Robert Hunter, Author / Environmentalist / Journalist
WEBSITES:   Greenpeace Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change

		Augmented reality will alter the way we see the world. Virtual information is overlaid in a person's field of view through a head worn display that looks similar to a pair of sunglasses. The real world and computer world are meld into one. Our research uses see through head worn displays which are displays that you wear on your head and will ultimately look like a regular pair of sunglasses but right now look a little more like ski goggles. They have little displays in them that produce the graphics and that gets combined with what you see in the real world. … Future applications that I think this will be very important in will be fire-fighting. The dream would be that a person would be able to go into an unknown environment and see information overlaid on the walls, doors, windows, electric services and the children's rooms and use that to much more quickly navigate through the building. - Steven K. Feiner, Professor, Columbia University
WEBSITES:   Xybernaut Scientific America NEC Research Index NSF/ARPA Science and Technology Augmented Reality Page
		* Augmented reality consists of a see-through head worn display with 3D graphics hardware, position and orientation trackers, and a wireless wearable computer. * Low power head worn displays are presently available for $1,500 through a company called Xybernaut.

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