[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots

[Marco McClean]

On 3/4/2016 10:56 AM, John Redding wrote:
 > And yet we all use some form of robots, don't we? Cars, washing machines
 > and the like are just a less sophisticated version of the machines we
 > now call robots. We use them because they make our lives better.
 >


     Marco here. John Hodgman, former professional literary agent, and 
PC of the "I'm a Mac" "I'm a PC" commercials, advice columnist, film 
actor, bestselling author of the /Complete Knowledge of the World/ 
series of books (including /Areas of My Expertise/), was also for a time 
a judge. In 2010 he ruled on the case /Are Machine Guns Robots?/ Here's 
the recording of that:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/jjhodgman/jjho003.mp3

     p.s. I'm doing my 9pm-to-4am KNYO (and midnight-to-3am KMEC) show 
by live remote from Juanita's tonight, so not at the station, in case 
you were planning to visit in person and play music or at least breathe 
the echoey studio air and bathe in the envigorating WiFi there; adjust 
your plan. I'll probably be back there next week. Anyway, among other 
material and people I have lined up for tonight, Norman duVall will 
connect to talk about the campaign to make Mendocino County a Charter 
County, whatever that means; we'll all find out together.

     p.p.s. I caught bits and snatches of the KZYX candidate-for-board 
forum last night. Interesting. http://jukebox.kzyx.org/ and scroll down 
to play Thursday, March 3, 2016 7:00 pm.

-- 
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com