Re: Why is Star Trek so robophobic?

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 "Victor Velazquez" <k-canute@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> We have sentient computers, sentient holograms, FTL, tele****tation 
> >> technology, fusion technology, replicator technology and yet they
still 
> >> have human(oid)s push and pulling and carrying stuff about ****ps with

> >> nary a robot in sight. Forget Data-esque androids, how about basic 
> >> droids?
> >>
> >> Put an item of some level of sensitivity or fragility (e.g.,
anti-matter 
> >> which can't be beamed except in exceedingly small amounts, or injured

> >> crew) in some robocart, give it a destination and send it on its way.

> >> Launch robodrones outside the ****p to survey it and make basic
repairs, 
> >> even if they are remotely controlled, but you never see that. What's
up?
> >>
> >> Sure, there was that whole M5 ... "incident" ... but is there some
story 
> >> or episode that explains why the robophobia? Is there some Butlerian
war, 
> >> some kind of Joshua incident, some kind of Skynet takeover attempt
that 
> >> explains why, not just Earthers, but the Klingons (altho they have a 
> >> culture that kinda explains direct action), the Romulans, the Ferengi

> >> (less fellow Ferengi to share profits if you have robots), Betazoids,

> >> Andorians, Cardassians, Bajorians, Vulcans, pert near every alien 
> >> encountered rarely if ever used robots, even the Borg are hybrid
organic 
> >> / technoid, why?
> >>
> >
> > Perhaps in the Star Trek universe all the civilizations that create 
> > intelligent robots get wiped out by them before they invent warp
drive.
> 
> What incentive could intelligent robots possibly have to wipe out
organic 
> sentients?  I could see it as an anomalous event, sure, but every
culture 
> that produces them?  Get out! 

In Larry Niven books, any time somebody builds a computer smart enough, 
it shuts itself off.  Permanently.

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