Quote of the Day – Ray Bradbury

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.

I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” Ray Bradbury

I am more and more convinced that if we did not open Pandora’s Box with computers, we are doing so with AI (Artificial Intelligence).

I would make Kurt Vonnegut‘s debut novel, Player Piano, required reading.  It is not his best work, but it has an important message. Given that the novel was published in 1952, Vonnegut was amazingly prescient about our current world.

But then again, I would also make George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, required reading. I have read this novel three times for various reasons.

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Face Off with A Robot

This is not the first time I have encountered a robot in the wild. Across the mighty Mississippi River, there is a sports bar I go to occasionally in Illinois as it is close to the golf course I go to most.  If Señora is not around for dinner I may stop in there for a bite.  For a while now, they have had a robot that brings the food from the kitchen in back to the waitress station in the middle.  It always seems a little rickety to me, but I have never seen it spill anything. On the other hand, I am in this establishment less than a handful of times a year.

I was in a local grocery store, Schnucks, this afternoon.  Señora had decided she wanted me to fix my infamous Continue reading “Face Off with A Robot”