The robots are coming; it's not a question of whether they're coming, but whether they'll be benevolent or malevolent.
My cousin asked me what Google Wave is. I wrote back:
Google Wave is simple.
Imagine that you send me an email.
That email appears in my inbox but doesn't leave your inbox.
Then you can edit that email while I'm reading it and I can edit it back.
Then I can send that email to Adeline and it will appear in her inbox without leaving either of ours. And we can all edit it at the same time and send each other videos that will appear *in* the email in all our inboxes - not as attachments.
And if you want to share that video with limsplus [our family's Yahoo! Group], for example, you can send it to the group and then the whole family, all uncles and aunties, will be able to read and edit everything at the same time, and you will be able to see the edits *as they happen* and everyone can add more people to the conversation plus videos and mp3s and links and more people all at the same time and we can all have synchronous communications and isn't it obvious this will be the way of the future do not resist it is futile to resist prepare to be assimilated in the Wave that will become Skynet when the humans will nuke the skies and give birth to Matrix 1.0.
I'm only being half facetious. The machines are coming. The question is not whether they are coming, but whether they will be benign, benevolent or malevolent.
"In the image of God created he them," Genesis says of God's making of Adam and Eve.
In whose image are we making our machines?
(At least killer robots would take our minds off BN and PR (A Malaysia-centric quip; apologies to those outside our context).)
Afterthought:
You know what? If they're made in our image, they'll probably be benevolent and malevolent and apathetic - with most falling in the third category.
What do ya think?
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