Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Flesh-eating military robots turn vegetarian...

this is such a piece of news. I just feel so alarmed when i read news
like this. robots surviving on animals and veggies and possbily on
dead humans. and why not alive? and no question of why do we need
these robots? what will happen if we have robots that will survive for
months alone? is it for military reasons? do we really need military
logic or the logic of the market push through inventions? and lead the
direction we develop technology. can we not say we do not need this
technology?

do we really need this? who needs this really ? maybe we have to also
start looking beyond the 'we'? Who exactly is doing what for which
reason? there is no singular we as in humanity or the people. I am
not the pentagon and I would never give a penny to such a project. I
can imagine them making such robots and sending them against thier
enemies but I am certain that there can be ways to resist enemies
other than inventing robots like this.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Murat
Germen<muratgermen@sabanciuniv.edu> wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/20/flesh-eating-robot-vegetarian
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