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Attack of the Killer Robots

The Pentagon’s dream of a techno army is doomed to fail.

By Eric Stoner

One of the most captivating storylines in science fiction involves a nightmarish vision of the future in which autonomous killer robots turn on their creators and threaten the extinction of the human race. Hollywood blockbusters such as Terminator and The Matrix are versions of this cautionary tale, as was R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), the 1920 Czech play by Karel Capek that… return to article

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    It’s a well thought out piece save for the fact tech accelerates at double exponential rates and form factors for creating really deadly bots is changing as we speak. The part of this piece that really frightening is autonomy.

    Click hhttp://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/skynet.html

    to see why. Read the query part, most enlightening to be sure.

    United States Posted by Robert Moran on Feb 26, 2009 at 3:41 AM
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