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    The Threat of Machines

    Entrepreneurs and technologists, be careful with just how hard you push your innovating. One day it’s a photo app, the next it’s a self-aware nanofactory that has the ability to self-replicate ad infinitum and supplant the human race.

    For now, location-aware predictive search engines and wearable computers are all very cool, but in just a few generations all this technology could quickly turn against us. Take, for instance, the dangers outlined in Ross Anderson’s 8,000-word feature on existential threat, published in Aeon magazine and excerpted in a Kottke.org post headlined “Will technology help humans conquer the universe or kill us all?”

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    Re: The Threat of Machines

    Just wait till the DHS and our government have those M.A.V.S that will allow them to execute anyone they like or dislike by sending these things out to enforce their plans..

    Iraq & Iran will be first - then it will be us

    We dont have a hope in hell , yet they want to take away the little hope US citizens do have of fighting back..

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    Re: The Threat of Machines

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    Re: The Threat of Machines

    Looks like Darpas police state enforcers are coming along nicely.

    FF2 5.40 to see scarier new stuff ( esp damm Cheetah )



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    Re: The Threat of Machines

    That first robot seemed to be remind me of a Moose.

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    Re: The Threat of Machines

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    That first robot seemed to be remind me of a Moose.
    heh , lets hope its as friendly

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    Re: The Threat of Machines

    Quote Originally Posted by melon View Post
    heh , lets hope its as friendly

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    But not as heavy
    Or as dumb.

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