Sometimes I know that I'm living in regular-normal-world. For example, when I'm sitting at my desk, drinking coffee and wishing that rather than being at my desk, drinking coffee, I were outside in the sun, drinking coffee. (Sometimes I will then go and sit at the picnic table outside and drink my coffee and wish I weren't at work at all.) But then there are other times when I am forced to accept that maybe I live in crazy-future-world. For example, when I'm confronted with one of those machines that can record something from the television and play it back later. ON A TAPE! (Seriously, ever seen one of those things?) Or, when a country (South Korea) feels the need to devise a Robot Code of Ethics. Haven't we all seen Blade Runner and I, Robot? Don't we already know this is going to end badly?
8.8.07
Robots
Sometimes I know that I'm living in regular-normal-world. For example, when I'm sitting at my desk, drinking coffee and wishing that rather than being at my desk, drinking coffee, I were outside in the sun, drinking coffee. (Sometimes I will then go and sit at the picnic table outside and drink my coffee and wish I weren't at work at all.) But then there are other times when I am forced to accept that maybe I live in crazy-future-world. For example, when I'm confronted with one of those machines that can record something from the television and play it back later. ON A TAPE! (Seriously, ever seen one of those things?) Or, when a country (South Korea) feels the need to devise a Robot Code of Ethics. Haven't we all seen Blade Runner and I, Robot? Don't we already know this is going to end badly?
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