Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

“I could say it was an accident, I'd meant to take him prisoner and he had tried to get away--Dr. Mensah would never believe that. My accidents were spectacular and usually involved me losing a big chunk of my organic tissue or something; she knew I could stop a human without hurting them, without even leaving a bruise, that was my stupid job. She would never trust me again. She would never stand close enough to touch (but without touching, because touching is gross) and just trust me. Or maybe she would, but it wouldn't be the same. Fuck, fuck everything, fuck this, fuck me especially.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Do you think that the soul first shows itself by a gnashing of teeth?”
― Karel ÄŒapek, R.U.R.

“Everyone had grown used to giving orders to the pleasant-voiced feminine robots. Alexa, Siri, Sophia, Sage, do this for me. A perky ‘okayâ€�, and your wish was her command. They’d all been doing it for years before women started realising the men in their lives had been conditioned to do the same to them. And by then it was too late.”
― Laura Lam, Goldilocks

“While the Archons cannot physically touchdown on Planet Earth, they can project their thoughts telepathically and their images holographically. They are experts in creating simulations of all kinds, inverting and distorting your perception and in this way, they create an Archontic Inversion. Archons are deceivers par excellence. They live in hive-like structures. They are more like robots than living beings, as they lack intentionality and imagination. In other words, they follow orders like an army of automatons.”
― Laurence Galian, Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“That is indeed the best way to dumb down the masses: make them do the same thing over and over; let them have their fireworks every Bastille Day and let them gorge themselves every New Year's Eve. When the body repeats the same action, the mind adopts it and keeps the repetition going day and night, stopping all thought processes.”
― Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World

“Since emotions are few and reasons many, the behavior or a crowd can be
more easily predicted than the behavior of one person can. And that, in turn, means that if laws are to be developed that enable the current of history to be predicted, then one must deal with large populations, the larger the better. That might itself be the First Law of Psychohistory, the key to the study of Humanics. Yet.'

R. Giskard Reventlov”
― Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire

“Compassion by design can be the part of new social robots, drone based warfare robots and the new cyborgs. Dehumanization or degrading human quality or developing negative attitudes towards any human group should not be allowed through our DeepCompassion algorithms and frameworks. The superhumanization algorithms will try to empower the robots and the cyborgs with super positive qualities of compassion, caring and high human values.”
― Amit Ray, Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0

“He would have no choice but to gaze at the sleeping face of his wife, pleasantly sleeping her usual way in the comfort of his arm, and, within the emotion of fear, dread and apprehension, take stock of his calibre as a human.”
― Kazufumi Shiraishi, Stand-In Companion

“Just my luck. The first colleague I'd befriended at the agency and it was an alcoholic supercomputer.”
― Seth Fried, The Municipalists

“Sexed but sexless, the robots. Named but unnamed, and borrowing from humans everything but humanity, the robots stared at the nailed lids of their labeled F.O.B boxes, in a death that was not even a death, for there had never been a life.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“I am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people, people, people. I want them to remain human.”
― Ray Bradbury

“It doesn’t matter whether there’s blood in your veins or hydraulic fluid, it’s everyone’s right to be free.”
― W.H. Mitchell, The Arks of Andromeda

“The industrial model is gone. People are more than machines.”
― Richie Norton

“Humans will stop acting like robots (cashiers) vs self-checkout and work will be strategic and anything that doesn’t require repetition. Ironically, humans will become less robotic (industrial revolution turned us into robots) and we will become more artful, thoughtful and creative...because we have to...bots will do all else.”
― Richie Norton

“But my only wish Is a simple one: to Dance with wild horses.”
― Chloe Gilholy, Game of Mass Destruction

“I was speaking metaphorically,â€� Eggor said, speaking laconically.”
― Martin Adams, Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory

“The "Society for Humanity" is a Northern organization, primarily, you know, and they make no secret of not wanting the Machines. -- Susan, they are few in numbers, but it is an association of powerful men. Heads of factories; directors of industries and agricultural combines who hate to be what they call "the Machine's office-boy" belong to it. Men with ambition belong to it. Men who feel themselves strong enough to decide for themselves what is best for themselves, and not just to be told what is best for others.["] (from The Evitable Conflict, 1950)”
― Isaac Asimov, The Complete Robot

“Stay alert. Pay attention to your robotic staff. Watch for the following signs in the days and weeks before your robots run amok. Sudden lack of interest in menial labor. Unexplained disappearances. Unwillingness to be shut down. Repetitive stabbing movements. Constant talk of human killing.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

“Art has always been seen as a pantheon of humanity, a quality that is quintessentially ours that no technology could ever replicate. As we peer into the future, we must remember the great benefits technology has provided us with. Robots will be bounded by the creativity and imagination of the human operating the machine.”
― Orge Castellano

“NASA's working assumption until then had been that, hardcore space groupies apart, people would only feel an imaginative investment in space if astronauts were involved, acting as a kind of representative human presence and giving the onlookers somewhere to situate themselves in relation to what they were seeing. Astronauts warmed space up, in media terms. They made it consequential. They provided the marker of human intent without which (it was assumed) any location would be just a set of affectless co-ordinates out there in the vacuum. The unmanned science missions to the planets were for scientists only, not for the general public whose emotions swayed space budgets. But when Pathfinder bounced safely to rest in Ares Vallis, and the six-wheeled rover Sojourner trundled out onto the boulder-studded plain like a big, cute, self-propelling roller skay, NASA discovered it had a spontaneous hit on its hands. It turned out people were willing for a robot to act as their surrogate on another world, so long as they could feel intimately connected to what it was doing.”
― Francis Spufford, Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin

“We should therefore welcome with open arms computers that are vastly more powerful than our brains, safe in the knowledge that our job is exponentially easier than theirs. They have to solve the problems; we just have to check that they did so to our satisfaction. AIs will think fast what we think slow, and the world will be the better for it. I, for one, welcome our new robot underlings.”
― Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

“The death of Opportunity Rover proves even robots can't survive on Mars”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“When human is full of emotions, robots are full of success”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“You just have an answer for everything don't you?
No, Parker. Only the questions you've asked so far.”
― Matthew Bruehler, Zentali

“Fears of robotics and technology arise, I think, from two human frailties. One is cognitive: we simply do not know what ­future technological change ­will be and thus cannot tell what new jobs will be created, what our ­future needs ­will be, or how raw materials ­will be used. The second is psychological: we get a thrill from fear of the unknown—in this case, the
scary and yet alluring prospect of metallic robots replacing flesh-­and-­blood workers on the factory floor.”
― Branko Milanović, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World

“Give me a hundred useless people, I shall build a robot for hundreds of usefulness”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I am neither your robot nor you are my master”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Richie Norton
December 31, 2019
MY PREDICTIONS FOR THIS NEW DECADE

20 years ago tonight I was in Brazil waiting to see if the world would end at midnight. #y2k I’m glad the computers figured out how to write the year 2000.

Would’ve been hard to imagine 20 years ago all that has happened in my personal life, family life and the world at large.

1. For example, people could still walk onto airplanes � TSA didn’t even exist, Facebook wasn’t even a thought on Zucky’s mind. No Twitter. No youtube. No ig. No li.

2. 20 years ago was a different time. I predict the next 10 years will bring as much change or more than the last 10 years brought.

3. I mean - TikTok taking over the world...a straight up Chinese company dominating American socials? Amazing. We will see more of this. It will happen in pockets where kids want to buck the boomers, the x men and the millennials. Then it will spread.

4. Universities will try to become relevant again by not focusing on the diploma as much because companies don’t require them anymore (unless doctor or lawyer type). You’ll see people focusing back on skills, results and a mega double down on personal brand.

5. Digital entrepreneurs will start making more money with physical products because people want “real.� YouTubers in large will leave because monetizing will become complicated with more adpocalypse.

6. Basics will come into play with direct selling, conglomerates will break themselves down intentionally into micro-enterprises to stay nimble.

7. Managers will be forced to become entrepreneurs and directly responsible for above the line branding and below the line profits... or they will be fired.

8. Solopreneurs will rise because freelancers will become commodities to utilize.

9. AI will take over every job that could be done by a robot. Making work more human.

10. Humans will stop acting like robots (cashiers) vs self-checkout and work will be strategic and anything arhat doesn’t require repetition. Ironically, humans will become less robotic (industrial revolution turned us into robots) and we will become more artful, thoughtful and creative...because we have to...bots will do all else.

11. To stay ahead, you must constantly learn and apply. It’s the dream. My new community and podcast will help you thrive! Comment if you would like access. Love you!

Happy new year!”
― Richie Norton

“Detective, what I'm trying to tell you is that there's no point in my being at this desk. Or anywhere else! We set it all into motion perfectly, and now the system itself can see to everything. It's like they're just keeping us around as... I don't know. Furniture? To occupy themselves? Learn from us? Or... maybe it's a form of tribute.”
― Philip Wyeth, Hot Ash and the Oasis Defect