Word: robotical
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...doing science by press release (yes, he keeps his door open to reporters) or his tendency to do not science but, as pioneer DNA mapper James Watson sneered, tedious assembly-line labor on machines that "could be run by monkeys" (yes, most of Celera's analysis was done by robot gene sequencers and high-speed computers...
...think teledildonics is the next generation of pornography. Perhaps it might replace 900 numbers, with men paying to control the toys of women they can see on their screens, but that's about it. Most people will still want to enjoy their sexual fantasies alone, because even a programmable robot is going to be just an annoying, unsuccessful intermediary--not to mention a very difficult thing to hide in an underwear drawer...
...Could a robot ever really want anything? The hard-core reductionists among us, myself included, think that in principle this must be possible. Humans, after all, are machines made up of organic molecules whose interactions can all be aped (we think) by sufficiently powerful computers...
...course, the robots we are building now don't have the physical dexterity of a year-old baby and don't yet recognize that they are the same robot today that they were yesterday. At best they are zombies stuck in the present, surrounded by a sea of unrecognizable shapes and colors...
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