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

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"  wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Jed Rothwell 
> 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:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ShixDbF_js
>
> T
>
>

Re: [Vo]:Test / robot panic

2011-11-30 Thread Terry Blanton 
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Jed Rothwell  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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ShixDbF_js

T

[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