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Why give a robot an order to obey orders—why aren't the original orders enough? Why command a robot ...

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Annette sighs. Manfred's been upgrading this robot cat for years, and his ex-wife Pamela used to mes...

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He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep befor...

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The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like ...

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I have spent these last two days in concentrated introspection," said Cutie, "and the results have b...

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Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will p...

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And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so mu...

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After a long time, I decided that the Three Laws govern the manner in which my positronic pathways b...

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...Changelessness is decay.""A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.""Changeles...

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Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity...

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Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots tha...

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It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro...

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Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable onl...

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Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay d...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any la...

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I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intel...

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Norbert WienerThe Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society

Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the...

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Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...

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Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot lo...

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Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of chu...

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