Musings

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[edit] I am a System

Apparent Paradox

Je Suis un Système

I am You and You are I and We are part of it All (Kristen's rebuttal)

[edit] Musing at Length

Computer Love
Consumption of the Mechanical Pig
Cyborg as Posthuman?
Roboculture and the Super Bowl - Yes, You read that right.
Wanna Cyber?: Copulation on the Internet

[edit] Quotable Quotes

“I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.” -- Jack Handy quotes

“A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]” -- Isaac Asimov

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people - but monkeys do to, if they have a gun." -- Eddie Izzard, 'Circle' stand-up

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -- Albert Einstein

"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences."

-- Lewis Mumford

"All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer." -- 1925 IBM Maintenance Manual

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, 1949

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window" -- Steve Jobs

"Modern technology / Owes ecology / An apology." -- Alan M. Eddison

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -- Albert Einstein