Friday, January 18, 2008

Fucking Commander Data: Robot ethics in the 21 century

I'm sure you all remember that episode of Star Trek: TNG where Lt. Tasha Yar did the bed bounce with Commander Data...well it turns out they weren't that far ahead of the times according to Hugo award winning sci-fi author Robert Sawyer who claims the advancements of robots and robotics coming out of Japan will spark a debate or the ethics of using robots as the new slave labour class in society (hey...that was a couple episodes of Star Trek: TNG if I recall correctly).

He also claims that we'll be doing the robot nasty with them by 2020 and discusses all this on Canada's largest educational broadcaster TVO with one of Canada's most respected journalists Steve Paikin (seriously!).

Click here to play in MP3 or right click to download
or
Click here to play in MP4 (the MP3 for video) or right click to download

and click here to check out the book "Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships" they reference over at Amazon.com



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