"a terrible brood of automata" - Steiner on the coming AI and autonomous robotic computer apocalypse

[Zenaan Harkness]

Timely example of IT systems and human hubris assuming no possibility
of certain failure modes:
http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/the-untold-story-of-qf72-what-happens-when-psycho-automation-leaves-pilots-powerless-20170510-gw26ae.html



On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:49:50PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Be warned fellow humans.
> 
> This is from a man who spoke nearly 100 years ago, of things we are
> yet to see, but which we now agree are entirely foreseeable.
> 
> 100 years ago computers did not yet exist. Yet the prediction of
> their inevitability and the worse things yet to be (quite possibly)
> seen.
> 
> And yes, a hint at an approach or "prescription" if you will to forge
> a different pathway into the future.
> 
> 
> But who can name such a pathway, even after reading this lecture
> transcription?
> 
> 
> 
> http://southerncrossreview.org/112/steiner-evolution-extraterrestrials.html
> Evolution and Extraterrerestials
> 
> Rudolf Steiner
> 
> A Lecture given at Dornach on May 13, 1921 for members of the
> Anthroposophical Society(GA 204)
> 
> (From a shorthand report not revised by the lecturer.)