Abstract
August 1, 2011When discussing the place of robotic system in civilian and military society,typically two opposing key themes will emerge: dreams of robot heaven andnightmares of robot hell. And it was in the 1960s, in this dual context—the robot asfacilitator, the robot as destroyer—that the poet Richard Brautigan highlighted avision of humans and robots working together to build a new society, a utopiancybernetic world ‘all watched over by machines of loving grace’ (Brautigan 1967).In the intervening four decades since Brautigan's poem was first published, anumber of core technologies required to underpin such cybernetic utopias have beensuccessfully developed, even if the concomitant social changes he promised have yetto materialise. In the civilian world, current examples of the forecast army of 12million plus
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