Quotes about Robotics from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Sun Microsystems's chief scientist, Bill Joy, has notched up the controversy over the concept of relinquishment, and elicited strong reactions from technological and environmental leaders by stating:
The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed. Ideas can't be put back in a box; unlike uranium or plutonium, they don't need to be mined and refined, and they can be freely copied. Once they are out, they are out. . ."- Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) "CONTRADICTORY SNAPSHOTS OF OUR FUTURE How might the near-term confluence of nanocomputing, robotics, and genetics turn out? No one knows for sure. Yet we can and must draw pictures, to see what we may face. Some of these pictures may seem paradoxical, but that's to be expected. Such contradictions have always been a defining part of our history and our humanity. In the twentieth century, the world experienced great wealth creation alongside broad impoverishment, birth control alongside overpopulation, and life extension alongside genocide." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) "A group of award-winning scientists—including Carnegie Mellon robotics director Hans Moravec, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) artificial-intelligence explorer Marvin Minsky, Stanford medical informatics professor John R. Koza, nanotechnology pioneer K. Eric Drexler, speech synthesis developer Ray Kurzweil, and retired University of California computer scientist Vernor Vinge, among others4—is contemplating whether this instant, known as the Singularity^ might be reached in our lifetimes." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) "A whole new economy has developed, consisting of enterprises generated from artificial intelligence and robotics. In the meantime, robotic care of the elderly has become commonplace. Nor is this impersonal or degrading. Quite the opposite: home-based medical robots and remote Internet-based analysis save us the trouble and distress of going to a hospital. Robotic companions give us company when the kids are gone. Some of us choose to have autonomous, fully functional companions that may not always do what we want. They exhibit some of the irreverent behavior of our kids." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) |
 "The Internet is, of course, an important technological advance in its own right, and it, as well as other developments in computer technology and robotics, does promise to have an unpredictable and powerful impact on our future. But we may question what impact the Internet and the computer revolution should have on the valuation of existing corporations. New technology will always have an impact on the market, but should it really raise the value of existing companies, given that those existing companies do not have a monopoly on the new technology?"- Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
 "Lest we forget, many advances in robotics and open-source software are driven by loose groups of expert amateurs. Human vision and knowledge may expand even faster than it did with the invention of lenses and movable type five hundred years ago.
This trend has naturally been met with some skepticism from the scientific establishment, governments, and corporations. Not all hobbies attract sober-minded and earnest citizens."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The dogs —built from robotics kits and fitted with devices that measure environmental variables such as radioactivity and air quality—are let loose at Superfund waste sites and English power stations. "Because the dog's space-filling logic emulates a familiar behavior, i.e. they appear to be 'sniffing something out,'" says the project's Web site, "participants can watch and try to make sense of this data without the technical or scientific training required to be comfortable interpreting [an] EPA document on the same material." Amy Franceschini's "Soil Sampling Shoes" and "F.R.U.I.T." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "It is manufactured by Cell robotics International, Inc.
Q A needle management system, called the Q-103 Needle Management System, is available to remove certain hypodermic needles from insulin syringes and to store them safely for later disposal. The device holds as many as 5000 needles, and is produced by QCare International LLC.
Q The FDA recently approved a wristwatch-like glucose-monitoring device for use by children and adolescents. The device, called the GlucoWatch G2 Biographer, manufactured by Cygnus, Inc., was previously approved for use by adults."- Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) |
 "He tried to download his mental contents into a nonhu-manoid robot, but this partially failed, such that he was rendered mutely sentient within this machine until another robotics expert wired him to another humanoid robot, literally with an umbilicus, so that Bailey, resident within the robot called Herbert, operates a remote called Clancy, and this becomes his vehicle in the world. Philippe, the robotics expert, after great mechanical struggle, midwifes Bailey's oxymoronic return to his senses, using the Clancy robot as his remote Double."- Richard Leviton, Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom (Get the book.) |
 "Thus, we are likely to witness a movement toward even greater screening throughput by miniaturization and increased reliability on robotics in production-scale or "industrialized" drug discovery efforts. One of the most challenging aspects for production-scale miniaturization is the microfluidics required for compound library reformatting and reagent addition onto high-density assay formats (e.g., microliter plates or bioehips) in uHTS. Although these screening technologies still require improvement and optimization, the potential advantages cannot be overlooked."- Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.) |
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