Re: [Vo]:Test / robot panic

2011-11-30 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: But as long as I am writing it, here are some great pictures of robots gone wild from the 1930s: In the interest of fair and balanced reporting, imagine how this robot impressed a 10 year old in 1964:

Re: [Vo]:Test / robot panic

2011-11-30 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Terry, that was a brilliant! Thanks for cheering my day. I wonder if in popular science literature, Alice in Wonderland is the most cited book? I would say that it is at least more cited than Darwin's Origin of Species. —Jouni On Nov 30, 2011 3:08 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:Test / robot panic

2011-11-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Slate.com has now added text to the slides. They forgot to originally. It is an interesting discussion of the fear that automation will reduce employment. The comic strip at the end is good. - Jed

[Vo]:Test / robot panic

2011-11-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
This is only a test. But as long as I am writing it, here are some great pictures of robots gone wild from the 1930s: http://www.slate.com/slideshows/technology/the-robot-panic-of-the-great-depression.html