Okay, not quite. But close enough. Are researchers honestly not thinking about what could be done with this technology should it fall into the wrong hands?
Any particular technology trends that have you leery? Like household robots or A.I. pets? Let’s start Monday off with a little panic attack about the failing of Asimov’s Three Laws, shall we?
I see that smile.
Okay Josh,
You read weird stuff. Someone has too much time on his hands.
I personally think things like this are way cool. I’ve never been worried about robots taking over. I mean, how can they be worse than some of the people who have been in charge of things?
*wibbles in terror*
I always knew the robots were taking over, starting with our brains. How do I know, you ask? Why–because I can’t remember a friend’s address or my parents’ phone number without the aid of a computer! Q.E.D.
Um. So as long as the robots stay outside my skull, I guess I’ll consider myself ahead of the game?
Gotta read it to write it. Look for brain-drilling wasps in some upcoming novel manuscript perhaps.
And yea, JJ., if an EMP hits our world one of these days, we’re going to suddenly realize how much of our brain power we’ve already handed over to the machines. Such a scary thought.
The fact that people can’t seem to live without their cell phones worries me greatly. And that I am one of them.
How did we ever survive in the time before cell phones?
Funny how each new invention quickly becomes essential to our lives. What would we be if it was all stripped away from us? Aside from less-stressed, that is.
GPS.
A critique-mate and I carpooled and used hers to get to our group’s holiday Christmas party, waaaaaay out in the boonies. And when we left, “Jack” the GPS wouldn’t let us leave the area. No matter what we did, he kept returning us to the same dark, spooky, suspicious-looking trailer park.
*long, bloodcurdling scream*
I have always used paper maps when on my own, and have never gotten lost!
I’ve never been against technology, really. I just think sometimes we take it so far that it makes us incredibly lazy and complacent. Not good.