[Ham] "It was Isaac Asimov who explored most fully the possible future relationship between man and intelligent machines. In his books, the issue of "robot rights" was first aired, as was the thorny question of how humans could be protected should the machines decide to turn on their makers."
You can read the complete article at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ (For the sake of humanity, it's time we humans organized a protest movement to ban humanoids ;-] [Ron] Asimov's "I' Robot" was in many ways a plagerism of Mary shelly's "Frankenstein's Monster" but where the artifical creation turned on it's maker in Frankenstein, Asimov inserts the base program of the "prime directive" Kant's statement "I think therefore I am" explored conscious awareness within this storyline also. Needles to say I was terribly disappointed by the recent film release starring Will Smith. [Case] I am disappointed that you think I am not familiar with Asimov. This theme has been explored in the Terminator, Robocop, Lost in Space, Star Trek NG, Blade Runner and countless others. The Jews have a similar legend of the Golem which predates Shelly so I am not going to accuse Asimov of plagiarism and frankly I really liked the movie I, Robot a lot. But Millennium Man with Robin Williams came from Asimov's robot short stories and was a more telling picture of the growth and development of an artificial life form. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
