Technology gone berserk, another report

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

 

I am disappointed to see how the Washington Post reported the article, as a

" fluff " piece, not even questioning the obvious ethical issues that this

" research " raises.

 

Of course the military agency DARPA is going to tell the press that this

work will somehow benefit people and save human lives...

 

I saw on another group (about robotics), someone posted a different

reporting, by CNN, which is more balanced, and at least quotes a different

scholar with a critical viewpoint of the work:

 

 

: Randy Gallistel, a professor of psychology

and cognitive science at Rutgers University, said it's basically the same

thing, with a twist, that scientists found they could do almost 50 years ago

by stimulating the reward-sensing area of a rat's brain.

 

" Without the gee-whizery, without the remote-control and so on, that this

kind of thing was possible has been obvious for decades, " he said.

 

here is the other link:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/05/01/remote.controlled.rats.ap/index.h

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narashankar

Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:52 PM

[sFBAVeg] Technology gone berserk

 

 

>Hi Friends,

>

>Here is an article about Franken Robotics.

>

>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18261-2002May1.html

>

>- shankar n.

>

[Guest guest]

On 5/2/02 12:46 AM, " Jon Spear " <jdspear wrote:

 

> I am disappointed to see how the Washington Post reported the article, as a

> " fluff " piece, not even questioning the obvious ethical issues that this

> " research " raises.

 

Yep, all too true. I first read about it on the BBC, and they did mention

the ethical issue. Your CNN link was malfunctioning, but here¹s the one I

found:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1961000/1961798.stm

 

 

tony