The Top 5 Technology Panics of 2009
destinyland writes “An A.I. researcher lists the Top 5 Technology Panics of 2009 — along with the corresponding reality. There’s exploding iPods, the uproar over ‘bombing’ the moon, and even a flesh-eating robot. But in each case, he supplies some much-needed perspective. ‘These incidents are incredibly rare … the rocket stage weighs around two tons, while the Moon weighs in at a 73,477,000,000,000,000,000 tons… and desecration of the dead is against the laws of war — and plant matter is a much better fuel source anyway.’”
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