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by Daniel Piotrowski

26 Feb 05:45am

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Meteorites blowing up the joint, robots carrying on… The Punch thought it was time to take a look at how science fiction has become science fact.

1. KILLER ROBOTS WITH NO MORAL CODE

‘Stop The Killer Robots’! There have been few times in history where a campaign has had such an eye-catching name.

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It sounds like some facetious, Onion-style parody of an NGO campaign gone wrong, but it’s not. It’s real. And it has formed because of concerns a race of Terminators is one day going to say hasta la vista, bebbe to humanity.

Human Rights Watch keep a trained eye on the abuses of nations (their biggest beef with us concerns asylum seeker detention). They’ve released an extraordinary report about the potential for murderous robots.

Read the report here.

They reckon that robots, like the drones the US are bombing Afghanistan and Pakistan into even wastier wastelands with, are evolving into cold machines without any human qualities. “Human emotions… provide one of the best safeguards against killing civilians,” the report argues.

Good point. If machines start thinking for themselves, shouldn’t they have iOs Humanity 5.0 installed into their quantum brains, too? 

Hang on. Sounds like HRW have been reading…

I, Robot – A 1950 novel by Isaac Asimov

2. NAN AND POP ARE ONLINE

Grandma’s already on the internet, bombarding your newsfeed and butchering commonly used acronyms.

Last year The Daily Telegraph ran a hilarious story detailing the confusion among some of the older generation (even Gen X’ers) about the meaning of “lol”. Many believed it meant “lots of love”.

LOL. We hope OMG isn’t being confused for Old Melbourne Gaol, too. Some would say what they’ve done is invent an alternate language. Just like George Orwell’s Newspeak in his dystopian classic, 1984.

3. GIANT ASTEROIDS DESTROYING US ALL

Flabbergasted. That’s what you were when you heard that a meteorite had injured hundreds with an explosion over the Ural mountains in Russia.

But it happened. The New York Times asked the question we were all thinking: could we really handle an asteroid better than the dinosaurs did?

You probably don’t want to know the answer, which included the fact that nobody actually has responsibility for defending the Earth from asteroids, not even NASA.

Just to add to your level off discomfort. How come it took us this long to notice a 200km-wide asteroid impact zone in the middle of the Aussie desert?

Nice one, humanity. Armageddon was probably too positive about the future.

4. COMPUTERS THAT KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU

Yeah…

HAL from A Space Odyssey, eat your heart out.

5. CYBERGEDDON

Chinese hackers have apparently hacked everything and everyone. They just can’t get enough hacking - whether you’re the US Government, the Australian Government, a company or a newspaper.

Apparently, all from one shabby looking apartment complex. Cyber-crime costs us a billion dollars, according to internet security firm Norton.

There’s barely been any good sci-fi about cyber war or cyber crime. But we do have one Julian Assange, who might as well be a Bond villain.

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    • acotrel says:

      05:05am | 26/02/13

      An RPG would slow down a killer robot and NO BLOOD ! - Fun times ahead.

      Reply

    • TimB says:

      07:26am | 26/02/13

      Garbage.

      Fire an RPG at Robert Patrick and you’ll be dead seconds after he reconstitues himself.

    • Chris L says:

      08:10am | 26/02/13

      Not if you fire it from a helicopter… oh wait.

    • Null and Void says:

      08:29am | 26/02/13

      What if the RPG was full of liquid nitrogen? And then you followed it up with another RPG full of ball bearings and smashed him to smithereens? AND YOU DID ALL THIS IN THE ARCTIC? :mindblown:

      Robots are pretty useful.

    • Al says:

      08:58am | 26/02/13

      Maybe acotrel means a Role Playing Game?
      Can a killer robot put itself into another role and play convincingly or would it just break down to a ‘kill all humans’ process.
      (I a visualising the Terminator playing AD&D and getting extremely annoyed and terminating the dice and DM!)

    • sunny says:

      09:43am | 26/02/13

      Unfortunately the only way to kill them is lure them into a steel making plant and hope they trip over and fall into a big container of molten metal.

      We could try assembling a crack team of god-awful singers - William Shatner, Yoko Ono, James Blunt and Bob Dylan - and get them to sing the theme from The Titanic, and (theoretically) the killer robots would activate their self-destruct sequence somewhere into the first verse.

    • acotrel says:

      05:08am | 26/02/13

      Why don’r we simply breed bigger funnel web spiders and train them to attack our enemies ?

      Reply

    • Gregg says:

      06:59am | 26/02/13

      Maybe it’s just armageddius funnels with huge suction fans that could be put to far better use.

    • TheRealDave says:

      03:55pm | 26/02/13

      I agree Acotrel - what could go possibly wrong with a plan like that?!?!

    • nihonin says:

      05:34am | 26/02/13

      ‘There’s barely been any good sci-fi about cyber war or cyber crime. But we do have one Julian Assange, who might as well be a Bond villain.’

      Maxwell Smart would have had him by now. 

      But Tony Abbott would have somehow managed to have let Assange escape, eh acotrel, gof, vox, the phantom, Christian Real, Bear, Achmed and James wink

      Reply

    • gof says:

      07:26am | 26/02/13

      #nihonin ,
      Mr. Abbott would see Assange as public enemy number one and would no doubt send a task force to invade ecuador because Assange believes in one thing the righty’s don’t! Transparency and the truth in government.

    • Fiddler says:

      07:59am | 26/02/13

      yes, gof, because Tony Abbott was the one who publicly stated he was a criminal and a danger…..

      Oh, wait that was Julia

    • nihonin says:

      08:01am | 26/02/13

      @gof and yet, what have Julia Gillard and Labor done for Assange and truth and transparency in government?

    • gof says:

      08:39am | 26/02/13

      #nihonin ,
      Why did you have to bring politics into an apolitical discussion? We were all getting along so well!

    • nihonin says:

      09:00am | 26/02/13

      @gof, the author mentioned Assange first wink

    • acotrel says:

      11:58am | 26/02/13

      @Nihonin
      ‘@gof and yet, what have Julia Gillard and Labor done for Assange and truth and transparency in government? ‘

      As much as Howard and the Liberal Govt. did for David Hicks and truth and transparency about the war in Iraq or the children overboard ?

    • Mikeymike says:

      01:52pm | 26/02/13

      And this is the problem with partisanship.  Eventually it boils down to an argument of “My people aren’t as bad as your people.”

      This endless finger pointing and name calling offers nothing.  I can look at the name making the post and know that there will be no surprises.  Why some of you have decided to identify yourselves to particular parties/ politicians is beyond me.  Are you related?  Did they save your life? 

      I’m really curious - why?  Why do you care so much about your team winning?

      And before you say “I don’t like Tony Abbott/ Julia Gillard/ whoever” that’s not a reason.  Be honest with yourselves.  You would still be writing pro “your” side and anti “theirs” no matter who was in charge.

      Politics is not a football game.  No politician should be able to rely on your vote, they should have to earn it.

    • Fred says:

      02:43pm | 26/02/13

      acotrel, still pushing you lies about children over board. There are photos of children being held on the edge of the boat and then they sunk their boat which irrefutably put the children overboard.

    • TChong says:

      05:39am | 26/02/13

      Killer robots
      Ash, The Goddamn Robot is the standard bearer and role model for all things evil.
      Roy Batty ( and Pris) - organic robots with a mean streak, but a sentimentalist too, like tears in the rain.

      Reply

    • Chris L says:

      08:13am | 26/02/13

      Roy and Pris would be easy to deal with. Just hide for four years and outlive them.

      Who’s Ash the Goddamn Robot? I assume he doesn’t have a chainsaw for a right hand.

    • Mouse says:

      11:27am | 26/02/13

      Tchong, do you mean Ash from Aliens?  He wasn’t evil, just a poor little, misunderstood android doing his job.  Geez, there’s no love any more is there?  lol :o)

      ChrisL, chicken!  lol :oD

    • Nostromo says:

      01:14pm | 26/02/13

      If ur going to talk about Alien(s) & need some expert info, just check my moniker, which I’ve used for close to 20 years on the interwebs smile.

    • Mouse says:

      01:38pm | 26/02/13

      sunny, I stand in my bathroom cleaning my teeth every night just waiting for that to happen…..... Alas, I still wait!  :o|

    • Ohcomeon says:

      04:59pm | 26/02/13

      @Nostromo,

      Lols, I just thought you were a Conrad fan.

    • SAm says:

      06:12am | 26/02/13

      Last weeks asteroid wasnt even seen until it exploded in our atmosphere. Makes you wonder really how safe we are! Besides I read somewhere that only 2% or nearabouts of the sky is being watched. Its the random asteroids from the OORT cloud that are a worry, as it may hit us first pass

      Reply

    • SZF says:

      09:01am | 26/02/13

      All true SAm, athough the chances of being hit by something big on its “first pass” through the inner solar system is still far less likely than a similar-sized object that is already orbiting through the same. The main reason is that beautiful gigantic bastard Jupiter.

      Having said that, it WILL happen eventually!

    • Mahhrat says:

      06:30am | 26/02/13

      Welcome to the future.  Privacy will be a tradeable commodity.

      The fact is, the general public isn’t up to speed on internet security (I know I’m not) because as yet there hasn’t been enough damage done.  Like most thing, we’re reactive.

      I’d suggest we’ll see a properly secure internet system about the time that it really threatens a couple governments.  Assange came close, but they’ve largely shut him up now.

      No, somebody more dangerous than he will come along in a few years and change the game.  There will be private companies offering you ways to hide your informaiton from the bureaucracy.  It will happen, simply because a bureaucracy by its very nature can’t change as fast as society.

      And I can’t wait.

      Reply

    • Gregg says:

      06:57am | 26/02/13

      It’s a bit like how people cannot just handle being plain ordinary people living plainish ordinary lives and like even Julia needs to reinvent herself not just at times and continually.

      Just think how it’ll be if the Robots go on binge drinking weekends and are the workforce police for not turning up on Mondays.

      Reply

    • WRG says:

      09:24am | 26/02/13

      Who’s Julia?

      Oh, do you mean the Hon Julia Gillard MP? Show some respect…

    • TimB says:

      12:27pm | 26/02/13

      @ WRG, when Julia respects the voters, we’ll respect her. Not before.

    • Mouse says:

      12:52pm | 26/02/13

      WRG, “Oh, do you mean the Hon Julia Gillard MP? Show some respect…”  MP?  Freudian slip maybe??  LOL :oD

    • WRG says:

      01:20pm | 26/02/13

      Really Mouse? Every member of the lower house of Federal Parliament is an MP, whether they are PM or not. Everyone of them is designated with the title the Hon XX XX MP.

      And TimB, you misspelled “me” - you accidentally wrote it as “the voters”. Every one of our elected officials is worthy of your respect for they have earned it.

    • TimB says:

      02:39pm | 26/02/13

      Nope, the only thing Julia has earned from myself and fellow voters is our eternal contempt.

    • AJ in Perth says:

      05:24pm | 26/02/13

      don’t fret about WRG’s response Mouse, I know what you meant, and as always, you were very subtle, very clever and very funny!!!  oh, and one could hope right as well :o)

    • DanFlan says:

      07:19am | 26/02/13

      Let’s just hope the killer robots are as bumbling as those in Stars Wars Ep. I.  We can take them.

      “Uh oh!”  “Roger roger”

      Reply

    • Greg A says:

      02:31pm | 26/02/13

      No, I want the modern Dalek, not the 1970 version.

    • gof says:

      07:31am | 26/02/13

      I want to know how Tony the unemotive doesn’t rust! Is there a new formula of WD40 that is for rusted on pollies only?

      Reply

    • nihonin says:

      09:01am | 26/02/13

      I don’t see any mention of WD40 in Daniel’s article, gof.  wink

    • Gregg says:

      10:19am | 26/02/13

      I think it is called Julia W(ay)  D(own) (near) 30
      Might even get used by the AWU.

    • Craig says:

      07:45am | 26/02/13

      How about nano machines that track our every move or influence our moods by manufacturing and injecting us with specific chemical compounds? We already have nano spots used for crime prevention in cars & are developing nano machines that can mend blood cells or kill viruses. These could become some form of population mood control.

      What about 3D printers killing 50% of manufacturing? We’re seeing their use for creating small items - cups, cutlery, that thing that makes your toilet flush, medical exoskeletons for small children with muscular disorders, chocolate and even art. What happens to the manufacturing industry when every household has its own Star Trek replicator-like 3D printer & downloads illicit patterns to make household items, or even food? When large 3D replicators in factories make our furnishings & vehicles? When enormous mobile replicators make our homes? Minecraft may become the breeding ground for the designers of the future.

      What about home-based genetic manipulation? People can already map their genomes for under $100, and in the US home-based genetic kids are sold as kids’ ‘toys’. At some point we’ll be able to use carrier viruses to inject genetic traits into ourselves and our children, first to remove risk of genetic disease and subsequently potentially to make us potentially faster, smarter or more beautiful. Suddenly we can remake ourselves - or maybe other could remake us against our wills (slip a genetic alternative into a drink at school or work - great for takin out a rival).

      Finally, what about the increasing capabilities of cybernetic limbs? Today we have prosthetics in testing that don’t only replace natural limbs, but add supra-human abilities, greater speed or strength, the ability to change height telescopically or to see in spectrums other than human normal, and broadcast this live online. Check out the eyeborg - a man who lost an eye and replaced it with a wi-fi camera, there a great documentary on the future of prosthetics. What do we do when people begin actively removing their natural limbs in order to win jobs requiring super-human strength or speed? When cybernetics replace tattoos as the ‘in’ thing for young people? How will we remake ourselves as cyberbeings?

      These trends are all real. We ignore them at our peril.

      Reply

    • Jim Moriarty says:

      07:58am | 26/02/13

      It brings up a very interesting debate about whether we will own our body parts in the future if we replace them.

    • Al says:

      08:44am | 26/02/13

      Craig - I say bring on Cyberisation.
      It could also make you immune to those nasty little mood contoling nano-machines you refer too.
      As for 3D printing - you sound somewhat like a luddite with your position. Someone will still need to produce the componet structures and materials for the 3D printers. Someone will still need to design (and better designs will sell at higher prices) the product to be printed.
      It may be different, but I certainly don’t see it as scary.
      BTW - there are much easier ways for mass mood control such as slipping a chemical to alter mood into the drinking water and this hasn’t happened yet (Flouride is not a mood altering chemical).

    • Chris L says:

      09:04am | 26/02/13

      Mechanical replacements for hearts and other organs would be helpful, but I suspect many of our future self improvements will be organic in nature. Hyper accelerated muscles or some such. Perhaps some way to encourage more efficient brain development in growing children (which will require the creation of a new political party for them to vote for).

      Some day the human body will be so enhanced and so efficient that we’ll be able to survive extreme conditions, eat only once a month and never need to poop (which would be great for germaphobes like myself).

    • Modern Primitive says:

      10:47am | 26/02/13

      Germaphobe hey Chris? Did you know you have over a thousand different types of native flora still on your hands after you’ve washed them?

      There are also thousands of different type of bugs living on you and inside of you, many of which are important to your health (there are bugs in your guts that help extracat nutrients out of food for you.)

    • Mouse says:

      11:39am | 26/02/13

      ChrisL, germaphobe?? Oh well, I suppose sex is out of the question then!  :o/

    • Al says:

      11:53am | 26/02/13

      Meph - yep, and just where does the plastic come from that this printer uses, it doesn’t produce it by itself, unless you can see them doing 3D printing of a plastic manufacturing plant attached to a 3D printer, including all the chemicals etc required to produce the plastics.
      Just like any printer it requires a certain amount of back up to function.

    • Meph says:

      12:42pm | 26/02/13

      @Al

      “and just where does the plastic come from that this printer uses”

      Certain types of plastics can be recycled easily enough. About all it would take is a bit of time, and the right design inputs and the printer could theoretically hunt down and generate its own supplies.

      I could go on to point out that a RotM scenario is possibly more likely than a zombie apocalypse, but I think you’ve taken me far too seriously already.

    • Chris L says:

      03:10pm | 26/02/13

      I actually did know that Primitive, I just choose to ignore it, along with the fact that every house has faecal matter on every surface. Every damn surface!

      @Mouse - The second brain is not a germaphobe. Hell, it doesn’t even know what the word “consequences” means!

    • Scotchfinger says:

      03:29pm | 26/02/13

      Hi Mouse! I LOVE germs! Bring em on smile
      Leave Chris L to his OCD.

    • Mouse says:

      05:11pm | 26/02/13

      All I can say ChrisL, is how happy I am the second brain doesn’t think. lol ;o)

      Hi Scotchie.  I know you love germs and that is one of the things that makes you a sweetie!  As to the other, I can’t leave ChrisL alone, you know that!  He is, after all, my furry Punch Buddy LOL :oD

    • The Silver Fox McScrooge says:

      05:12pm | 26/02/13

      All sounds like interesting stuff but I’m a little more concerned about how we plan to deal with bacteria.

    • Chris L says:

      06:05pm | 26/02/13

      I can see that next time I duel Scotchfinger for Mouse’s favour I’m going to have to double tap.

    • Jim Moriarty says:

      07:55am | 26/02/13

      I’m waiting for the day that GeneCo opens.

      Reply

    • St. Michael says:

      12:55pm | 26/02/13

      Same year as Omni Consumer Products finishes off Delta City.

    • Ohcomeon says:

      08:20am | 26/02/13

      What a pointless article. Drones are not robots. They are a lot closer to a remote controlled plane than the terminator. How can a RC plane ‘evolve’ into anything?

      Horrible.

      “Human emotions… provide one of the best safeguards against killing civilians”

      LOL! Since when?

      Reply

    • Big Jay says:

      09:12am | 26/02/13

      @Ohcomeon - “Since when?” LOL…I have to agree with you there.

      Apparently they are already working on artificial intelligence to allow drones to automatically identify and engage targets. Obviously, it’s tricky so they reckon its about 8-10yrs off.

    • JTO says:

      12:10pm | 26/02/13

      Since several studies have been done showing that even amongst battle hardened, trained soldiers, only a small percentage (somewhere around 30% from memory) were actually prepared to fire a kill shot. Most were happy laying down covering fire, but wouldn’t aim their weapon at another human being. People inherently hold human life to be precious.

    • Ohcomeon says:

      12:27pm | 26/02/13

      JTO,

      history disagrees with you on a massive scale. All you need to do is give people the flimsiest justification and its Killapalooza.

    • Fiddler says:

      01:21pm | 26/02/13

      actually JTO is quite correct, although his numbers were wrong. In WW1 and 2 it was around 90% who would subconsciously or deliberatly aim to miss.

      Changing targets from bullseye’s to man shapes, use of people as enemy in training (wth blanks) and various other training techniques have turned the stats around to about 90% will overcome the instinct not to fire the shot, however this causes problems due to ignoring the instinct is a cause of psychological trauma which leads to PTSD.

      It is far better understood and trained with now, but this is one of the reasons for so many psychological injuries after Vietnam.

      There is a book called “On Killing” which goes into extreme depth about this

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Killing:_The_Psychological_Cost_of_Learning_to_Kill_in_War_and_Society

    • Chris L says:

      09:07am | 26/02/13

      Sergeant Candy: It is finally within our power to make war safe, and that is truly precious.

      (cut scene from Terminator 3)

      Reply

    • PJ says:

      09:54am | 26/02/13

      The biggest beef Human Rights Groups have with us is:

      - the Gillard Governments policies in the NT, which were described as “Ethnic Cleansing.”
      - the Gillard Governments Malaysian Concentration Camp Solution in a country with a poor human rights record, that was the only solution the Gillard Government would offer, without mediation or facilitation toward compromise and safe policy. The consequences were folks drowned.

      Asylum seekers are a problem around the world, the cost, the issues of integration and how you assess their stories effectively, so that you are not unleashing other countries criminals into your communities.

      Reply

    • SAm says:

      12:21pm | 26/02/13

      The only thing resembling Science Fiction (the topic) of your post PJ is your thought process

    • ohcomeon says:

      10:14am | 26/02/13

      Sci Fi buffs would very much enjoy the forgotten 1970 film, “Collossus: The Forbin Project”. The back story of Terminator was pretty much lifted straight from this very intelligent, and forward thinking film.

      Watch it before Will Smith completely destroys another sci fi classic with a vanity remake next year.

      Reply

    • Modern Primitive says:

      12:47pm | 26/02/13

      Don’t we already have an emotionless drone running the joint?

      Reply

    • St. Michael says:

      12:59pm | 26/02/13

      In passing, if Roger Penrose is right, then odds are on we’ll never have to worry about self-aware machines leading to a mass extinction as synthetic life goes to war against organic: true artificial intelligence may well be impossible by definition, depending on how quantum mechanics works and whether the human brain unconsciously uses it to create sapience.

      Me, I’ve got the fallback: once again, breed up bardi grubs to the size of aircraft carriers so we can ride them into battle, and invest in stillsuit technology.  The Butlerian Jihad can take care of the rest! (NB: Butlerian Jihad as envisioned by Frank Herbert, not the godawful pile of crap Kevin Anderson seems to have written).

      Reply

    • MOdern Primitive says:

      01:20pm | 26/02/13

      Kevin Anderseon desicrated one of the greatest Sci Fi series ever. Frank’s son also, but to a lesser extent.

    • St. Michael says:

      02:16pm | 26/02/13

      Which one, Mod. Prim? X-Files, Star Wars, Dune, or Superman? Anderson’s had his horrible hands in every single one of them, and he’s broken every one he touched.  I really don’t understand how the hell he keeps working in the field.

    • Meph says:

      03:00pm | 26/02/13

      @St. Michael

      “breed up bardi grubs to the size of aircraft carriers so we can ride them into battle”

      Throw in some Melange and you have yourself a gloriously dystopian society!

    • Modern Gom Jabba says:

      03:26pm | 26/02/13

      Dune, and I had no idea he worked on any of the others.

    • St. Michael says:

      04:47pm | 26/02/13

      Oh, how I wish I didn’t know he’d worked on them, either *shudder*

    • TheRealDave says:

      04:04pm | 26/02/13

      The PLA have more militarized so called ‘hacker’ battalions than we have regular AND reserve infantry battalions. You’d have to be incredibly naive to think they are all sitting around on Facebook all day posting random shit…..and yet we have former Australian politicians lobbying to allow a Chinese IT firm (who is paying them signifigant coin) stacked with (ex-LOL!!)PLA officers, and who’s CEO in Oz practially lives in the Chinese embassy, lobbying their mates in government to allow them into the infrastructure of our broadband and communications networks?!?!

      And sadly thast not a fictional tale unlike the rest of the points and discussions….

      Reply
 
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