By the 17th century, self-operating systems - automatons - were becoming popular. The jubilation of having a clock wake you or a box play a clip of your favourite song, etc. only incited attainability. Then in early 1920s (unrelated to technology frenzy) Capek coined the word Robot - force labor - in his play "R.U.R" which mimicked social realities in the 1910s' Soviet Union. By mid 1930s, U.S Mathematician Claude Shannon applied Boolean Algebra, the mathematical invention of self-taught English Mathematician George Boole, which gave way to programmable devices. It wasn't until the 1940s that computers (mainly calculators) became practical and the let's-play-gods jumped upon the potentials. Today, you can have a body part enhanced and/or replaced; run your business from your bedroom; acquire instant wealth of information from around the world without ever leaving your home, etc. What can possibly go wrong?
A lot, unfortunately! For instance, the same Information SuperHighway - Internet - that places so much at your disposal can also provide a wonderful disguise for crooks; and the chips that enable your electronics to perform the expected tasks can be used (thanks to nanotechnology) against your humanity. Before certain Hi-Tech devices are made public, certain governments have enjoyed and/or exploited the potentials. While the Internet, for instance, became public in the early 1990s, some governments had enjoyed its privileges for years.
I set this stage to let you understand why I avoided several things in the USA: Humans with any level of commonsense are not welcome in the USA, regardless of race. It was my suspicion (concluded in 2000 and confirmed in 2002) that the USA is involved in human tampering; more specifically, human implantation. An overwhelming percentage of the people in the USA are generic beings; some knowingly, some unknowingly.
Facts: The Jews in Hitler's regime; the opposers of Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, etc., had more Human Rights than an overwhelming percentage of the folks in the USA - they could think at will, and thus fought back.
The desire to have slaves who would not complain has been around long before the actual beginning mass experimentations in the 1940s - my suspect decade. Several great minds (consciously or unconsciously) in various ways, hinted of the evil: Mary "Shelley" in "Frankenstein"; Descartes in his "I think, therefore I am"; Souvestre in "Le Monde tel qu'il sera" - "The World As It Shall Be"; Capek in "R.U.R"; Lang in "Metropolis"; Asimov in "Runaround", "Robbie" and "Evidence"; Williamson in "With Folded Hands"; 1951 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still"; 1956 film "Forbidden Planet"; 1960s "Shakey"; Scott's "Blade Runner"; movie "Terminator I"; movie "Six Million Dollar Man"; Moore's "No Woman Born"; movie "Robocop"! Beware! Immunity vaccinations are very likely means for mass executions of nanotechnology devices. Welcome to nanotechnology. (I wonder what's become of Technologist Drexler.)
Suppose a scientist realizes a good faith discovery or research is being used inhumanely, or realizes while analyzing some specimen that the things on the slide do not match any known bacteria shape and do not even resemble a prokaryotic or eukaryotic cell? That the things on the slide instead spark or shock? Risky, risky, risky. Descartes saw the absurdity of the venture - dehumanization - from a thinker's point-of-view, Asimov from a scientist's and I, from the viewpoint of a mostly self-educated (1). Electronic Engineering Technologist, (2). Amateur Scientist, (3). Naturalist, (4). Law Scholar and (5). A born Thinker, with credentials being COMMONSENSE.
Rendering Humans non-human is the ultimate form of Human Rights violations. And, a possible connection to the sudden deaths of several microbiologists. Please see:
www.whatreallyhappened.com/deadbiologists
www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_14_02_microbio.html
www.stevequayle.com/dead_scientists/UpdatedDeadScientists.html
Thus, the reason you will find people supporting issues they cannot justify, regardless of facts. Those of us who escaped with God's intervention are under constant harassment and attempted suppression and/or elimination. Getting spotted is simple. You see, electronic/robotic devices are data communicating devices. They can always acknowledge one another and therefore, know when an individual is not one of them. However, electronic/robotic devices are nothing but dumb chunks of materials until told what to do.
Even our renowned philosophers (some whose ideas on existence management some of us cling to unfiltered) criticized and acknowledged the flaws in their ideas. Dealing with any large group of people can be tiresome and even frustrating; especially when one is bent on achieving identical responses and forgets one can never successfully box any Human being. No nation is perfect. No political ideology is without flaws! A failed system should never provide justification for such forced compliance. You have to be very perceptive and/or just happen to be (like Claude Shannon or I) acquainted with some of the fields of expertise involve in the accomplishment of such degenerate ventures to put two and two together. Descartes refuted the sadistic game by declaring "I think, therefore I am" and Asimov not only advised caution in his laws of robotics, but even told how the extreme form - imposters - could be accomplished.
There are companies and individuals being used to propagate remote-controlled dehumanization. They tell you how wonderful it is to have ID implants (a technique that have been in use openly for a while on domesticated dogs and cats) to prevent frauds or have implants that nonverbally communicates even a normal person's wishes - a quadriplegic male in March 2005 received one such implant to help him change channels on TV. But various forms of this dehumanization process have been in effect for years. Your credit card (a very convenient item), for instance, can tell anyone who cares to know a lot about you. "Not all that glitters is gold."
Although caution is too late for some, be careful and be inquisitive. If a situation has a natural resolution, first opt for the natural: If, for instance, you have a headache, first try eating - hunger will also bring on headaches - and resting, instead of taking aspirin. If there's a cholera outbreak (the result of improper sanitation/hygiene), boil your water and hand-wash often. And if a stranger offers you a hefty sum of money to bury some waste on your property or to experiment some drug/substance on you, tell him/her to go to hell. Though mostly self-taught, I can tell you that most of the 21st century medical outbreaks and scares are intentional. For starters, at no time in history has a deadly disease been known to be eradicated as soon as it appeared. Meaning a disease as deadly as SARS, or ANTHRAX, etc. was intentional with antidote ready. Beware of immunity vaccinations! And be twice suspicious when they are solely recommended (even for travels). Your general physical should satisfy any health query. Immunity vaccinations (immunization, that is) are not really your friends.
Are you a Human or a Robot? Well, let's check you out. Try adding 1 + 1, 1 + 1 + 1, (1 + 1) + (1 + 1). In normal language, write out 11, 101, 1010, 1111. What were your immediate answers? What you immediately wrote down and how you wrote it, without any kind of conversion, will reveal what you are!
However compelling the arguments, robots can never be Humans. Humans are Humans and robots are robots. We, Humans, acquire abilities and skills (which maybe learned from a teacher or be self-taught) by learning through observation, experiences and aided instructions. Unlike Humans, robots can only compare stored data. Robots do not think and cannot reason. Electronic/robotic devices are nothing but dumb chunks of materials until told what to do.
WARNING!!! And please, if you ever get into a confrontation with any of these beings that results in an unavoidable physical, only seek to disable the input(s): These are machines!
Note: Some science-fictions(sci-fis) are hand-tipping. Hand-tipping seems a natural applicator in life. The Old Testament hand-tips the New Testament; the Wall Street Market at the end of the day tips its hand on next market trend. Would you believe even Houston's ENRON tipped its hand on its solidity with its crooked-E? (Go figure.) Well, particularly note the major characters in Asimov's "Evidence" in "I, Robot", movie "Terminator I" and the original script of "Blade Runner". Hand-tipping is natural and can be done even unconsciously.
The marvels of Hi-Tech! The beauty of limbs and body parts enhancement and/or replacement notwithstanding, remote-controlled dehumanization will backfire. Are you Human or Robot?
Respectfully, L'Afrique
Fused: May 2005