I
enjoy reading science fiction, but I wouldn’t want to see most of its fantasies
become reality.
Heinlein
and Bradbury wrote very interesting science fiction, and so did Orwell, Huxley,
and Wells.
But
that doesn’t mean that I approve of, or like all of their imaginative creations.
I
didn’t like Big Brother or telescreens.
I
didn’t like cloning.
And I certainly
didn’t like the burning of books!
The
following caught my eye.
In fact, my eyeballs nearly flew out of their sockets!
In fact, my eyeballs nearly flew out of their sockets!
Draft U.N. paper says machines should
not have power of life or death over human beings
Moratorium on
killer robots sought
AP
Fasten your seatbelt
and hold on to your underwear!
Is this where we
have arrived?
“Honey, I think I've caught a cold…and some killer robots are
trying to kill me!”
O.K.
We watched The Terminator and enjoyed it.
After all, it was
only a movie, and we sat safely in front of the movie screen.
But here we are
now.
It’s not a movie.
And we might have
to deal with these damn machines…
These damn,
intelligent machines.
And they are from
the Earth,
Not from somewhere else in the galaxy or universe.
Not from somewhere else in the galaxy or universe.
Has it been
Progress or Decay going from Kitty Hawk to today?
We’ve become
prisoners of an Xbox world.
James Joyce was
right:
History
is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/science/a-remote-controlled-robot-the-size-of-a-fly.html?src=rechp
IT’S ABOUT
RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND KILLER ROBOTS!
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