drifterlee opened this issue on Feb 14, 2008 · 56 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Fri, 15 February 2008 at 2:39 PM
Quote - *but it's also well to remember that only a crazy person would even consider climbing the mountain.
or like they thought in the 60's, developing AI for computers.
Yeah -- I saw The Forbin Project many years ago.
It's OT to the thread -- but there are now some serious books / articles by various "experts" speculating over robots being the future perfect mates/companions for the lonely.........[[I'll take a pass]]. IIRC, there was a Night Gallery episode which dealt with the unfortunate consequences of such arrangements......in fact, there was an entire sub-genre of scifi short stories & TV show episodes about masters being killed & displaced by their pet robots.
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