How will robots affect the world?

Switzerland
September 24, 2007 3:42pm CST
If robots advanced to the stage of (for all intents and purposes) doing everything a human could, how would the economy change, and would they be given rights etc? Also (more hypothetically) what about star trek replicators, where you could just replicate things from thin air?
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
25 Sep 07
I would like to think that the world would never become so curupt that we would cease to feel any longer. There are not very many things that I would want a robot to do for me. For instance, I would not want a robot to be my therapist or even doctor. I am very content with the human touch. I know that a robot would probably make less mistakes and not fall asleep during a routine exam, like one of my doctors did, but I need to deal with humans as much as possible. I think that a robot will do exactly what the cell phones and computers are doing. They would drive us futher and futher apart. We were created to commune with one another. No man is an Island as they say. The Bible says, A man who isolates himself seeks his own way. If you had a robot to cook, clean, and keep you company, why would you need to join with another human being. I mean, everything about them wont be negative, but I feel that Americans will go way too far, just like they have with everything else.
@remaster74 (4064)
• Greece
24 Sep 07
Science fiction in action!!!! They will be unable to do though ceratin things like creating life, dreaming (and dreams and making goals is important for a nation and a society to evolve), etc..