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Technoprogressive? BioConservative? Huh?
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Man’s best friend has new best friend

Ross Rosenberg

Ectoplasmosis

Posted: Mar 17, 2008

(Via Ectoplasmosis) As Ross notes, this video of a boy, a dog and a robot is a portent of the displacement of humanity by automation. “Our time left on this planet is short and one day — no doubt sooner rather than later — mechanized monstrosities will cleanse us from this sapphire spheroid in a wave of robotic fury, probably with lasers in their eyes....”