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"Agribusiness farms have been trying for years to replace human pickers with robots. Newton Research Labs have developed machine vision systems that can detect different shapes and colors. New Zealand's kiwis are now being sorted, graded and even pollinated by robots that work twenty-four hours a day. These automatons, which are overseen by 1.5 humans per eight-hour shift, "also collect data that will enable coolstore operators to decide which fruit to market and at what time," explains designer Dr. Rory Flemmer. The goal is to have fruit-picking drones whizzing through orchards day and night." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"I was one of the original twenty surgeons who tested the first successful artificial heart, one of the first surgeons to use robots in operations, and the first to design and perform heart-valve operations through two-inch holes! You could say I'm a maverick. I've always looked at problems of the heart, and survival, from a different perspective." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The pharmaceutical industry will turn even the best of us (and the athletes belong to the best) into emotionally changed personalities - into emotional robots. One could write a whole book on this fact alone: what medical drugs are doing to musicians, to actors and to Hollywood in general. The point is: all those people, including the Yuppies and the super successful, are target markets for the pharmaceutical industry." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"They are not disconnected, head-in-sand, unflappable robots. They are moved just like the rest of us. But when circumstances suddenly change for the better, they are quick to move on. They let go. Positivity is what makes them nimble. More than others, people with resilient personality styles put the "undo effect" of positivity to work. They bounce back—even at a core physiological level—because their inner wellspring of positive emotions bubbles over. Positivity serves as their secret "reset" button." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Would you say they turn people into emotional robots? " Dr. Greg Olson: "Definitely! The user acts aggressively in every situation even if it is illogical. This aggression may be useful in sports but does not fit the scene in normal everyday living." "What would you say are the worst case scenarios with side effects? " Dr. Greg Olson: "People are known to commit murder while in a 'roid rage. One well-known example of this is Sally McNeal.290 She killed her significant other with a 12-gauge shot gun, thinking he was having an affair. She was on steroids at the time." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The movie The Matrix is based on the idea that we are programmed into a world that we believe is real but that is just a program, that we are like robots. The reason I use the word Matrix is not that I believe we are robots trapped in this world or that there are vicious villains or terrible enemies that need to be destroyed. What really holds us captive is the set of belief systems and ideas we have bought into. The Matrix is the system of beliefs that we have come to accept as truth—a giant web of ideas that we believe is right or wrong, good or bad." - Margaret Ruby, The DNA of Healing: A Five-Step Process for Total Wellness and Abundance (Get the book.)

"Increasing miniaturization and nanotechnology will lead to the creation of robots the size of living cells, or smaller. • Medical science may extend human life by another decade or two. • The telephone, television, and computer will be integrated into a single multipurpose tool. • Genetic reprogramming will offer new treatments for otherwise incurable hereditary diseases, as well as new drugs, new foods, new insecticides, and so on." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "We moved from pots and hammers to boats, plows, wheels, mills, drills, engines, planes, computers, and robots. Through our hands, our ideas could manifest and take shape. We could invent new forms and could change the world in ways no other creature could. This newly found power to create tools constituted the second important platform on which human cultural evolution was built. From it came all manner of inventions and an explosion of novelty unprecedented in the history of life on Earth. Amplification of the Thumb One of our earliest inventions was agriculture." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"New Zealand's kiwis are now being sorted, graded and even pollinated by robots that work twenty-four hours a day. These automatons, which are overseen by 1.5 humans per eight-hour shift, "also collect data that will enable coolstore operators to decide which fruit to market and at what time," explains designer Dr. Rory Flemmer. The goal is to have fruit-picking drones whizzing through orchards day and night. While it certainly seems more feasible than the four-thousand-year-old Egyptian method of training monkeys to pick fruits, its merits are debatable." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Children become little robots, they sit in class, and teachers love it because they don't cause problems, but the children become so depressed that they go back to the doctor and get put on another psychotropic drug for depression. A lot of children on Ritalin are not able to sleep at night, either." Dr. Peter Breggin is even more angry. "We used to beat our kids and we used to think that was okay," he says. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"These orders went to giant prescription-filling factories like Medco or Express Scripts, where robots filled the bottles at a rate of five thousand per hour, before sending them down a conveyor belt to be wrapped, addressed, and dropped in the mail. This was medicine in a minute. People wanted their fix, and they wanted it quick. Health care was becoming just another part of the economy that was run like a fast-food restaurant, a trend that the sociologist George Ritzer has called the McDonaldization of society." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Biohacking with nanotechnology One of the most alarming discussions of potential biohacking is talk of using nanotechnology to unleash an army of anti-cancer robots in the bloodstream of human patients, which would find cancer cells and eliminate them from the body. This is classic biohacking mentality, and it ignores the very real fact that the human body already has such a system in place. It's called your immune system, and it is more advanced than any nanotechnology that has ever been developed, or ever will be developed, by human scientists." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"The reason I use the word Matrix is not that I believe we are robots trapped in this world or that there are vicious villains or terrible enemies that need to be destroyed. What really holds us captive is the set of belief systems and ideas we have bought into. The Matrix is the system of beliefs that we have come to accept as truth—a giant web of ideas that we believe is right or wrong, good or bad. The Matrix is the rules we as a society have created that dictate how we should live our lives. When we first arrive in this world, we are happy little campers." - Margaret Ruby, The DNA of Healing: A Five-Step Process for Total Wellness and Abundance (Get the book.)

"In 1954, Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic candidate for president of the United States in 1952 and 1956, said, "We are not in danger of becoming slaves any more, but of becoming robots." Rather than battling against societal sources of depression, it appears that Americans are increasingly attempting to divert themselves from the pain of their hopelessness and helplessness. Today an estimated 20 to 25 percent of Americans use psychiatric drugs; 10 to 15 percent are abusing alcohol and illegal psychotropic drugs; and 7 to 12 percent compulsively gamble." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Some competing sales people called Pfizer sales reps "robots," or "Kool-Aid drinking drones,"5 a reference to both Pfizer's rigorous sales training as well as the fact that many of their reps were former military officers.6 Mounting Concerns Pharmacia's employees had the Pfizer/Warner-Lambert merger to look to as a sign of things to come. The rumor within Pharmacia was that most of the U.S. Warner-Lambert employees had left after the take-over. But the employees at Pharmacia were not the only ones concerned about Pfizer's offer." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Every person alive today has cured cancer already, and we don't need an army of mechanical robots roaming around our bloodstreams trying to find these cancer cells when we already have an army of white blood cells, NK cells, antibodies and other defenders in our immune system doing that job for us. Instead, what we need to do is support our body's anti-cancer blueprint. We need to support its own built-in healing abilities by supporting immune system function, not destroying it through barbaric procedures like radiation therapy and chemotherapy." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Telepresence and Bio Art: Networking Humans, Rabbits, and robots by Eduardo Kac (The University of Michigan Press, 2005) Recognized worldwide for his interactive Internet installations, bio-art pioneer Eduardo Kac documents in this landmark book the evolution of his field —art that bridges the divide between biology, technology, and innovation. Using examples from his own cadre of world-changing "events," Kac argues, "telepresence works have the power to contribute to a relativistic view of contemporary experience and at the same time create a new domain of action, perception, and interaction." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Though robots are used to mechanize the process, individual fertile chicken eggs are required to grow the virus. When there is enough virus inside the egg, it's extracted and chemically processed for key proteins, called antigens, that stimulate the human immune system to make immune chemicals, called antibodies, against the invading virus. It's a slow, tedious, time-consuming process, requiring about six months from inoculated egg to shot. Complications don't end with logistical delays, shortages, and a cumbersome laboratory process. Inefficiency also plays a role." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Instructions are linear, similar to recipes, and they're available for everything from a 3-D chocolate printer to home-canned applesauce to self-replicating robots. Makers join the site, upload photographs of their projects, tag photos with expanded information, then invite the world to comment or improve upon their designs. Take a look at the following Instructables' samples: Make Your Own Pedal-powered Air Compressor: What can you do with an old electric motor and a bicycle? Make a pedal-powered air compressor to build other things, of course." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Such add-ons for phones aren't out there yet, but students and engineers around the world have attached atmospheric sensors to bicycles, handheld computers, and cheap robots. They've even stuck sensors on the backs of pigeons to measure smog-forming pollution. It would be easy to put the same sensors on a phone. The idea of a phone with a sensor chip is not new. Tech companies around the world offer specialized phones that can sniff for bad breath or process blood tests in the field, and an enormous variety of tiny, inexpensive sensors are already on the market." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"People always have had a love/hate relationship with robots, but this psychological barrier must be overcome. After performing more than 10,000 procedures with manually deflectable catheters, I have become enthusiastic for this emerging field," he adds. COST MAY BE AN OBSTACLE The main obstacle to the widespread use of robotic surgery is cost. For example, the equipment used by Pappone cost more than $2 million. The expense of the equipment may make it prohibitive for hospitals in the developing world, where it is needed most." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Today many of these materials are handled by robots. Robotic sensors don't need visual cues and they don't need to mouth pipette. Ads tell us that modern cosmetics can put a shiny coating on dull, lifeless hair and other parts of our bodies where an extra glow may be nice. What they don't say is what it takes to make these ingredients. Most people can't stand the smell of ammonia for long. But ammonia, an atom of nitrogen surrounded by three atoms of hydrogen, is an essential chemical for many uses." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "Today, Fernandez's job is done in the dark by robots in what is called "lights out" manufacturing. IBM won that lawsuit in 2004. The judge ruled that the plaintiffs had not proved a causative link between each of the many different chemicals IBM used and the cancers that had occurred in each individual woman. The increased rate of breast cancer for the women who created the guts of computers became a matter of public record only after the company's legal efforts to prevent publication had been exhausted.30 By then it was too late for Fernandez." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"They went on a buying spree for devices ranging from two-million-dollar CT scanners to million-dollar da Vinci surgical robots. Today, hospitals in cities and towns across the country are engaged in a medical-technology arms race, buying up high-end machinery as fast as they can, even if it means duplicating a device that can be found in a hospital just down the road." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"There are frequent discussions about building tiny robots that would circulate through the human body and eliminate cancer cells, repair arteries, and accomplish all sorts of other miraculous sounding things. I always laugh at this because the human body already has nanotechnology that does all of this and much more. We have an immune system that puts any man-made technology to shame. Our body already knows how to repair itself." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Although called robots, their capabilities were about the same as a player piano, which plays different songs when different music rolls are inserted. Soon, however, robot arms that could distinguish the objects by weight or temperature or shape became available. Another group of useful robots began with the space program. The best examples are the various Mars rovers, such as Sojourner, Spirit, and Opportunity which move through the landscape, detecting obstacles and compensating for them, and also sample and analyze rocks and soil." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"We're told that through the miracle of nanotechnol-ogy, someday medical scientists will be able to unleash an army of tiny robots that will course through our veins and destroy cancer cells and fight disease. Yet, these outrageous visions of nanotechnology ignore the simple truth: We already have the best nanotechnology in the world ?an immune system ?and our immune system is, itself, a natural miracle of such greatness that technology cannot even approach its complexity, effectiveness, resiliency and adaptability." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"In a way, we become psychological robots to fulfill the beliefs that we are given. Fortunately, our consciousness is a more powerful force than the information that we were programmed with. We can change. While we cannot change the events of the past, we can change how we feel about them. To change, we have to let go of the old and the dysfunctional, in order to make way for the new and life-enhancing." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"The world of the future is often portrayed as being filled with fantastic labour-saving machines - robots that anticipate our future generations' every need by performing the dreary tasks that supposedly make our present day lives so tedious and miserable. But the characters portrayed by the movie stars seldom seem to have 'moved on' from their present day counterparts; they still struggle with the same frustrations while playing out the same petty dramas in their co-dependent relationships." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"Nearby, in a section heavy with the smell of chemicals and grease, robots bow and rise and send off sparks as their red hot snouts weld one after another of the steel beams in the Corolla chassis. Elsewhere, pairs of workers snap tail-lights on the rear ends of passing Tacoma pickups, one a minute. The rhythm of the place is relentless—thump ... click ... pssstt. .. thump ... click ... pssstt.... Here was the automated construction of mobile machines—1,570 a day according to our tour guide." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

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