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    Fear of Robots: Mainframe-Era Version

    Posted by David Foster on February 6th, 2014 (All posts by )

    New Yorker cartoon by David Langdon. (click to expand) I can’t find a date for this, but it was probably sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

     

    This entry was posted on Thursday, February 6th, 2014 at 12:01 pm and is filed under Economics & Finance, Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    3 Responses to “Fear of Robots: Mainframe-Era Version”

    1. Bill Brandt Says:
      February 6th, 2014 at 1:28 pm

      There was a Twilight Zone episode on this very subject.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple%27s

    2. Michael Kennedy Says:
      February 6th, 2014 at 9:23 pm

      I liked the one that came out in 1959 with the computer printing out a message that read “Cogito ergo sum.”

    3. Grurray Says:
      February 6th, 2014 at 9:35 pm

      This was a good movie

      http://www.rottentomatoes.com/mobile/m/desk_set/?nopopup=true

      Modern treatment of a surprisingly perpetually arising concerns
      Plus you can’t beat Hepburn and Tracy.

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