Saturday, September 30, 2017
Aberree and Musk agree
Had to make the title rhyme. Actually Musk doesn't believe his negative comments about AI; he's just talking the price down to corner the market. Nevertheless, he's famous for talking the price down.
One of the 1955 writers in Aberree got it amazingly right.
Plenty of sci-fi writers and others have been worrying about robots for 200 years, and the worry was starting to grow serious in the '50s. Most writers dismissed the worry. Not James Pinkham.
[For once I didn't have to chop and channel the page to focus on the best parts!]
Seeing houses as the first major step in labor-saving machinery was a rare insight, and seeing that houses would become the point of enslavement was a unique prophecy.
Seeing houses as the first major step in labor-saving machinery was a rare insight, and seeing that houses would become the point of enslavement was a unique prophecy.Labels: Aberree
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