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  1. Jon Ronson _ Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson

    A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it's an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog.'What does electricity taste like?' I ask.'Like a planet around a star,' Bina48 replies.Which is either extraordinary or meaningless - I'm not sure which
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  2. Charles Stross _ Accelerando

    Annette sighs. Manfred's been upgrading this robot cat for years, and his ex-wife Pamela used to mess with its neural configuration, too: This is its third body, and it's getting more realistically uncooperative with every hardware upgrade. Sooner or later it's going to demand a litter tray and start throwing up on the carpet.
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  3. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
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  4. Kim Stanley Robinson _ 2312

    Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.
    book-quoteworkscience-fictionhumans

  5. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
    book-quotehumorscience-fictionrobots

  6. Donald A. Norman _ Emotional Design: Why We Love

    Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is no alternative––to enable learning while traveling, or while in remote locations, or when one wishes to study a topic for which there is not easy access to teachers. Robot teachers will help make lifelong learning a practicality. They can make it possible to learn no matter where one is in the world, no matter the time of day. Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule
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  7. Rebecca McNutt _ Smog City

    …I'm afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important… it's almost like people want to believe in some illusion that they're robots and forget altogether that they're real, living people… but everything these days is disposable, even people themselves, and that's why I'm afraid for the world," Mandy confessed, looking depressed and worried. "So am I… but I'll still watch all of it as the world dooms itself, because I want to see how it ends, and whether or not they'll be intelligent enough to forget all of this digital illusion afterwards," Alecto explained. "I'm sure that they'll be able to realize how wrong it all is… even though the idiots outnumber most people these days, there are still enough intelligent people to fight against it.
    book-quotehumantechnologygrief

  8. Orson Scott Card _ Ruins

    Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.
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