martoon

10.5.06

ROBOT - robots VIA Popular Electronics 1958

  • there are robots among us.


  • Modern Mechanix has 5 pages from an article about the furture of robots that ran back in 1958
    THE AGE OF SCIENCE has made the word “robot” the focus of popular fears and hopes. The hope is that machines with minds, machines that can talk, think, and work like men, will give everyone a life of leisure. The fear is that robots will replace mankind, that they might run amuck and destroy their masters, that the robots will get us if we don’t watch out. What was conceived as a work-saving machine has become the popular bogeyman of the age of science...

    1 comment:

    martoon said...

    only a matter of time. I give it 5 years until the first roomba fatality.