It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn’t life. People need meaning as much as they need air.
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.
Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.
The end of the world came and my job did not change.
If you don’t die screaming in this war, then you’re fuckin’ doing it wrong. At least I’m fucking doing it right.
You’re not really grown until you’ve lost your heroes.
So now what?” I ask.She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she’s gone to sleep.“I think this is just part of it,” she says. “Civilisations fall. People keep going.
But instead of the end, I’m pretty sure I found myself at the start of something.
I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.
You probably found ‘How to Survive a Robot Uprising’ in the humor section. Let’s just hope that is where it belongs.
I absolutely don’t think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better – otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study – you can get a degree in robotics – and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people’s minds.
We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing… The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don’t behave very well when they are afraid.