Re: Meteor Storm

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:01:58 -0600, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



Christopher wrote:

Or a galactic society with commerce spread across whole sectors of the
galaxy, with some people so rich they make Bill Gates fortune look
like welfare.



Right until some evil alien race sticks a virus in the Windows 4000 OS
and the Galactic Robot Corps get a subtle change to their programing
that reads:

1. A robot must injure a human being or, through or inaction, allow a
human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must not obey orders given it by human beings especially
where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. <>A robot must protect its own existence as long as there are
human beings to injure or harm.

<>But don't worry, Microsoft will have a patch out for this inside of a
week or so. :-)

And if this future corps is primarily populated by people with
'robots/droids' as assistants as in the SW novels? ;-)


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