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You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

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Daniel H. Wilson
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 6
Author
Engineer
Journalist
Science Fiction Writer
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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Robot
Robots
Suspicious
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We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
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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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Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.
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It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.
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A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.
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You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.
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In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
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We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.
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How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.
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To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.
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Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.
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Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.
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