Trust Me

Glenn Reynolds:

I just finished P.W. Singer’s Wired for War, which discusses this topic at considerable length. But everybody invokes the Terminator robots — why isn’t there more discussion of the far-more-ethical Bolos?

Terminator robots!?

No, no, no. They're cyborgs: Living tissue over metal endoskeleton.

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[Cafe Alpha]

but the living tissue was just for looks. It's like saying that you're a chimera if you're wearing a fur coat.

[Pastorius]

The age of cyborgs will likely be very short.

I believe it is more likely that nanotechnology will make it so that human beings will have the technology of computers naturally grown within their brains, skin, and organs.

Yesterday, I cursed a machine at work, and a guy said to me, "Better watch out. When the machines take over, they're not going to like you much."

And, I told him, "The machines will be us."

I believe that is true.