Sunday, June 02, 2013

SUNDAY BREAKFAST



















This scene is, of course one of those George Jetson futures of which we were so cruelly deprived. Where’s my fucking rocket car and android attendants? Perhaps my extreme ire at being so heinously let down is the reason I now no longer trust the robots. HAL 9000, Skynet, Colossus the Forbin Project and all the other renegade droids who turn on their creators only compact my fears. Ray Kurzweil and his mates at Google look forward with great optimism to the Singularity when the machines are smarter tha we are. I fear that any self aware and self respecting AI would view the way we humans carry on and deem us destructive, dangerous and only suitable for eradication.

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The secret word is Pod

8 comments:

  1. Jan Hagel1:26 AM

    Is it so difficult to become smarter than humans?

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  2. G Jones6:51 AM

    Machines can be sex maniacs too, as in "The Demon Seed" when rape-bot Proteus IV shagged Julie Christie.

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  3. Anonymous7:56 AM

    Here I am in the 21st century
    I have to say it ain't as cool as I hoped it would be
    No man on the moon, nobody on Mars
    Where the hell is my flying car?
    Ain't nothing even like a teletransporter so far

    It's hard times in the new millenium
    Gettin' by on just the bare minimum
    Everything to lose and nothing to spare
    Going to hell and nobody cares
    Ain't the future that Kennedy promised me
    In the 21st century

    Finally come to the age of Aquarius
    And if we live through the Mayan apocalypse
    There'll be pie in the sky above lemonade springs
    A goddamn American utopian dream
    If you believe that then you're more optimistic than me

    Lights out in the heart of America
    No love in a time of hysteria
    It's head for the hills, every man for himself
    Nobody helping out nobody else
    Ain't the way that the Maharishi said it would be
    In the 21st century

    Pray for guidance, beg forgiveness
    Vote for change and hope they find this
    Only thing I know for sure is:
    We stand now on the verge of history
    The world can be anything that we want it to be

    Where there's a will, there's a way
    When there's a fire, there's a spark
    Out in the streets, downtown in the park
    Baby, the future's just waitin' on you and me
    In the 21st century

    Steve Earle

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  4. 'Jan,ffs chief,strip away all the crap,find yourself on your uppers & thrown back on yourself & see clearly,& you'll find we are generally fantastic. Fuck this 'man is a blight' shite.grr.

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  5. Your flying car is in this tree:

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/05/10/bc-flying-car-crash.html

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  6. Jan Hagel11:46 PM

    Hey Stu, you really believe in mankind, dont you?That's so sweet ...

    Plus, I like this line in the comments section: Please prove you're not a robot

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  7. Anonymous6:35 AM

    It is always disconcerting to learn you are no longer top of the heap.

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  8. Jan Hagel3:24 AM

    ... said the tyrannosaurus.

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