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If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

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Taught Us, Robots, Culture

"Dan Wilson's HOW TO SURVIVE A ROBOT UPRISING Acquired by Jack Black and Steve Pink" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. October 22, 2010.

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It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

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Eye, Hands, Wipe

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Memories fade but words hang around forever.

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Memories, Forever, Memories Fade

Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

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Technology, Years, World

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It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

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Race, Together, Knees

Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

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Humanity, Lessons

Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

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Technology, Able, Today

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Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

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Meaningful, Real, Believe

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As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

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Thinking, Technology, Wind

"Implants to make us smarter? An interview with amped author Daniel H.Wilson" by Kathy Ceceri, www.wired.com. June 25, 2012.

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Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

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Technology, People, Wells

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Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

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Japan, People, Culture

"How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited". Washington Post Online Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 23, 2006.

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Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

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Running, Technology, Reality

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I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.

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Reading, Flames, Years

Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

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Physics, Unfolding, Witness

Daniel H. Wilson (2014). “Robogenesis: A Novel”, p.333, Vintage

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Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

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Grandmother, Perspective, Google

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You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

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Uprising, Robots, Found

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Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

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Hands, Space, Expectations

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Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

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Uprising, Robots, Benefits

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Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.

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Cute, Children, Skills

"I (Robot) Thee Wed". www.slate.com. May 04, 2012.

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Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

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Pirate, Vampire, Trying

"How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited". The WashingtonPost Online Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 23, 2006.

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You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.

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Robots, Want, Arms

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If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

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Spread, Ifs

Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse: A Novel”, p.280, Vintage

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Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

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Smart, Zeppelins, Detectives

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We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

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Expression, Mind, World

Daniel H. Wilson (2014). “Robogenesis: A Novel”, p.263, Vintage

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I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

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War, Thinking, Artificial Intelligence

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