Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:17:33 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] Time To Apply The First Law Of Robotics To Our Smartphones
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
Isaac Asimov would not be proud.

Seventy years ago, Asimov created the "first law of robotics," the idea
that robots of the future would obey a rule rooted deep in their
programming: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm." By the year 2015, as his short
stories predicted, even outmoded droid models would obey that maxim.

But now we've nearly reached that date. And according to free software
pioneer, futurist and activist Eben Moglen, that fundamental law of
robot ethics has yet to be coded into the most ubiquitous bots in our
lives: our smartphones.
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<http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/06/26/eben-moglen-time-to-apply-the-first-law-of-robotics-to-our-smartphones/>

         mark
--
He hath need of his wits who wanders wide,
aught simple will serve at home;
but a gazing-stock is the fool who sits
mid the wise, and nothing knows. - Havamal (Elder Edda), stanza 5