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'Machines that behave like men can be manufactured and can in the end set up their own machine-controlled society.'
Such machines, and such a society, far from being a Science Fiction dream, are not only conceivable, but - as Professor George argues - are growing closer to becoming reality day by day.
Computers are already widely used by society - factories are automated, huge data banks store all kinds of private information.
Soon, perhaps, all society's chores will be performed by a new super-breed of mechanical drones. Meanwhile, the storing and control of information will be entrusted more and more to electronic brains. Two of the most crucial areas of power will be controlled by machines. What if the machines fall into the wrong hands? What if the machines themselves take over?
The new machines will be capable of sensing, perceiving, thinking, even of reproducing. They will be able to communicate in their own language.
We are on the brink of a social transformation potentially greater than the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. The intelligent machine means that our definition of Man himself has to be changed.
ISBN: 9780586082812
