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This is how the robots will win

April 26, 2010 by John

Despite Hollywood’s predilection for outlandish visions of the future, I predict that the robots will win by doing something simple like disrupting the transmission of e-mail.  My campus e-mail has not worked since last night and even without an impending robot onslaught it still feels like a matter of life and death.

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Posted in The Electronic Age | Tagged E-mail, Robot Onslaught, Robot Revolution, Robot Uprising | 1 Comment

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  1. on May 6, 2010 at 1:54 pm Slate is stealing my ideas « Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] 6, 2010 by John First, I said this and Slate wrote this and now, no doubt trolling my archives for story ideas, Slate has written […]



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