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Best I can tell, "the world of 2001" was an article in vogue in 1966 and may also be in the book the view from Serendip if anyone has access to that book. |
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I know he's made similar sardonic statements (although he made others expressing hope for a future in which the amount of human labor will be reduced, giving people enough time for a really thorough education, and therefore a greatly elevated culture), but I don't recognize that particular quote off-hand. I own a copy of The View from Serendip but it's in storage, so I can't check it right away.
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The relevant section is indeed in The View from Serendip (pp. 69-70; viewable, in part, at Google Books), but it's also viewable in its entirety in this copy of "The Future Isn't What It Used to Be," a speech Clarke delivered at CalTech (and elsewhere) in April, 1970, available in PDF (see p. 9, second column).
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Uplifted trained animals doing household work. Interesting. And sounding dangerously close to slavery. If we genetically engineer intelligent animals (other than ourselves) at what point would they be deserving of rights.
Thanks much for finding the info. |
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The moment they rebel against their human masters, causing a nuclear war where the Statue of Liberty gets demolished so that Charlton Heston can find it several centuries later.
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The particular species is a more human like chimp, that is bred as slave labor that can be leased from the company that created them. Pretty good read - if you like Michael Crichton's work and the topic is something that is interesting to you, it's worth the read. |
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IOW, the standard which we (in an ideal world) apply to the mentally ill. If they are a danger to themselves or others, then their rights are restricted. Or, the rights we don't apply to pets. Depending on your viewpoint you could say that dogs and cats can grasp that they are not free. But until we can teach them to look both ways before crossing the street, we curtail their freedoms for their safety. Of course, this gets tricky in the real world as not teaching the upgraded animals about dangers could be used to "justify" keeping them as slaves as they couldn't protect themselves. (Some slavemasters used this justification to keep blacks as slaves as they were "clearly" unable to take care of themselves.) PS. This reminds me of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Data, the android, was resigning to avoid being experimented on. There was a trial to determine if he was property or a being. The JAG asked if the computer on the Enterprise would be allowed to refuse a refit. I always thought that was an easy question to answer. If anything has enough sense of self to fear its own death, then it is a being. PPS. Which brings up my rule of intelligence. If a being understands pointing, then it is intelligent. |
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I didn't think the war was caused by the apes or by their "rebellion" against humans. I thought it was caused by humans simply being humans, and the apes rose to domination of the world in its aftermath.
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One prospect I find interesting is the creation of intelligent beings that can perform mental tasks at a human (or superhuman) level but nontheless do not and can not desire freedom.
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As I say, this is only if the sequels count....it may well have been the attention of the original writer that humans destroyed their civilization first. (Perhaps the fallout accelerated the mutation rate, causing the intelligent apes to arise faster than they could have naturally.) |
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I read the book years and years and years ago; the only thing I remember specifically that differed from the movie was that .... *** SPOILER ALERT! *** *** SPOILER ALERT! *** *** SPOILER ALERT! *** If you think you will ever read the Pierre somefrenchguylastname (Bierre?) novel, don't read any further! *** SPOILER ALERT! *** *** SPOILER ALERT! *** *** SPOILER ALERT! *** (was that enough spoiler space?) The book was written in the first person, and the protagonist escaped the planet. The book was his memoirs, put into kind of a "space bottle" (think message-in-a-bottle); you find out at the very very end, that a female chimpanzee astronaut was reading the book. **** OK, I did something intelligent - I checked Wikipedia. The novelist was Pierre Boulle (so I was pretty close); the guy escaping and sending a space "message-in-a-bottle" was spot on. Looks like there were a lot of differences, however. |
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