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entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2006-12-23 11:23 am
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the study also revealed that humans would fly around with jetpacks and live on the moon

London, England (AHN) - According to a study by the British government, the thin line between human and robot legal rights will apparently merge in future as the mechanic devices could one day demand the same legal rights assigned to people.

The report, written by British research company Ipsos-MOR for the U.K. Office of Science and Technology, said that the rights - if granted to the robots, would force countries to provide social benefits including housing and even "robo-healthcare."
About the only good thing i can say about this stultifying piece of "science" is that none of my tax money funded it.

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2006-12-23 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
This kind of reminds me of that Scientology book in which people recount the adventures they had in their past lives millions of years ago--as Kibo remarked, it read exactly like what you'd expect if you just asked a bunch of random people not well-versed in the art to make up a science-fiction story.