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This made me think:
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. - Erich Fromm
Robots are just another form of slave, right? Just ask the Cylons. But I'm not sure Fromm meant that; I suspect he meant something more subtle. What do you think?
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. - Erich Fromm
Robots are just another form of slave, right? Just ask the Cylons. But I'm not sure Fromm meant that; I suspect he meant something more subtle. What do you think?
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"...True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become "Golems," they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life."
GREAT quote.
Robots are only another kind of slave if they are intelligent machines. If we could define 'intelligent,' we might have a concrete ethos.