The Robots Will Fucking Kill Us All!

It's coming, boy, death at the cold metal hands of
unthinking machines. And here we sit making toys
out of the fuckers like it's cute. We are traitors
to the future generations of man who will live and
die completely at the whim of some God DAMN computer
brain, some artificial intelligence run wild. Think
I'm joking? Apparently, you haven't seen the writing
on the wall, man, or watched "Rage Against the Machines"
on Sci Fi or read about the Neo-Luddite movement

Here is a guy, Ronald Bailey of Reason Magazine,
who hates neo-Luddites. He sees them as mostly old
hippies and spoiled young left-wing college students
from Mass. and Oreg. -- "young hippies" -- who believe
corporations will use technology to further strengthen
their stranglehold on the planet. Duh! Seems like a bit
of prick himself who suggests that cars are good, canned
goods are good goods and that all technologies might have
their downside, but that is no reason to stand in the way
of a glorious techno-uture.

I'm divided. I'm a Trekkie counting on nanotechnology to
cure my diabetes, but I guarantee that corporations will
use any technological means at their disposal to continue
to fuck humanity on a one by one as well as mass basis.
It's the nature of the beast.

Look at what they've done with medicine for Christ's sake.
Time was, doctors and scientists worked to cure disease.
Well, no one is makin money off of polio these days because
we fucking cured it. So now a days pharmaceutical companies
work on treatments. Get sick and the rest of your life is
spent laying out cash for survival drugs. And no one can
complain because on the face of it, the corporations look
like good guys just trying to help people. They can even
make the argument that if they are not viable financially,
they won't be around to help find cures in the future.

It's bullshit, of course, and we buy into it because we
are all fucking sheep.