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You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.

Daniel H. Wilson

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Daniel H. Wilson
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 6
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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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No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.
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I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.
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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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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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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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Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.
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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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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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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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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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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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When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.
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A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.
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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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I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
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It's dangerous to be people-blind.
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It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
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It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.
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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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