“We will see speech recognition used in a widespread way on such pocket computers within the next couple of years.”//Ray Kurzweil//digitalmindsblog
“THE TRANSLATION ALLOWS EACH CULTURE
TO ADAPT THE OBJECT TO FULFILL THEIR OWN NEEDS
A TRANSLATION IS REALLY THE MOVING OF
ONE OBJECT TO ANOTHER PLACE”//Lawrence Weiner//gammm
“Visionary ideas become more than manic insubstantial dreams when we have the tools to implement them, the rigor to evaluate them, and the will to do the work of implementation.”//Transhuman
“Robots can work around the clock and do not receive differential pay for night work; they are not prone to go on strike or to display other forms of labor unrest; they occasionally break down, but never get sick and are immune to the effects of drugs and alcohol; and they are readily available for work at unpleasant tasks for which human laborers are difficult to recruit.”//RAUllrich
“When industry is totally automated and hyper-efficient, it will create so much wealth that retirement can begin at birth. “We’ll levy a tax on corporations,” Moravec says, “and distribute the money to everyone as lifetime social-security payments.””//Hans Moravec//primitivism
“But a war against the machines would be a war against society. There are some who try to fight such quixotic wars today, but they can rarely do more than make a minor nuisance of themselves.”//Hans Moravec//robotbooks
“We had a couple of problems with the management of last year’s Robot Wars…I’m noting these here for your information — and hopefully to encourage this year’s RW management to look into and resolve the problems (before it’s too late and someone gets hurt)!”//phobe
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. – Ashleigh Brilliant
Droid Rage
Cyborg Liberation Front
“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?” (Nietzsche)
“In some areas of the Middle East and the Iberian peninsula, Neanderthals did, in fact, co-exist side by side with populations of anatomically modern Homo sapiens for roughly 10,000 years.”//allexperts
“I have convinced one self to contradict my other self in order to avoid conforming to my identity.“//Natasha Vita – More
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