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For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

- Daniel H. Wilson
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The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there's the Terminator.

Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now.

A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry.

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

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For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.