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If humans could fly, without tools and machines, how fast do you think we would go?
No one nation can afford to build a machine this large, apart from maybe China, because they can mobilize huge amounts of resources, manpower and money to build machines like this.
The story featured automated machines with distinctly human features that, until they revolt, catered to the whims of the people of Earth.
Capek originally considered calling these hard-working machines labori from the Latin word for labor, but he worried it sounded a bit too scholarly.
Tattooing machines used today insert tiny needles, loaded with dye, into the skin at a frequency of 50 to 3,000 times per minute.
The more interesting question is whether capitalism will be succeeded by something resembling a Matrix dystopia or something much closer to a Star Trek-like society, where machines serve the humans and the humans expend their energies exploring the universe and indulging in long debates about the meaning of life in some ancient, Athenian-like, high tech agora.
And in the not so distant future, the machines built with the precision and flexibilty of the human eye may even enable it to surpass its own evolution.
Computer scientists built these amazing, beautiful machines, but they made them very, very foreign to us, and also the language we speak to the computers so that we don't know how to speak to the computers anymore without our fancy user interfaces.
And evolutionary algorithms, or genetic algorithms that mimic biological evolution, are one promising approach to making machines generate original and valuable artistic outcomes.
So the first thing we did is, as soon as the sequences came off the machines, we published it to the web.
But these machines can only construct gold atom by atom.
Their idea is based on the work of a mathematician named John von Neumann, who designed on paper machines that could self-replicate and create new generations of themselves.
These would later come to be known as von Neumann machines.
In the context of space exploration, von Neumann machines could be built on Earth and launched into space.
There, the self-sufficient machines would land on distant planets.
Creating von Neumann machines would require a few technologies we don't have yet, including advanced artificial intelligence, miniaturization, and better propulsion systems.
So then where are all these machines?
Some astronomers, like Carl Sagan, say that intelligent aliens wouldn't build self-replicating machines at all.
Others take the machines absence as proof that intelligent alien civilizations don't exist, or that they go extinct before they can develop the necessary technologies.
Science fiction author David Brin writes about a universe in which many different von Neumann machines exist and proliferate simultaneously.
In fact, in Brin's story "Lungfish," some von Neumann machines are keeping a close watch over the Earth right now, waiting for us to reach a certain level of sophistication before they make their move.
But the next time you look at the night sky, consider that billions of self-replicating machines could be advancing between stars in our galaxy right now.
For example, before aerial package delivery entered our social consciousness, an autonomous fleet of flying machines built a six-meter-tall tower composed of 1,500 bricks in front of a live audience at the FRAC Centre in France, and several years ago, they started to fly with ropes.
By tethering flying machines, they can achieve high speeds and accelerations in very tight spaces.
Helicopters, for example, are affectionately known as machines with a thousand moving parts all conspiring to do you bodily harm.
If flying machines are going to enter part of our daily lives, they will need to become extremely safe and reliable.
This machine over here is actually two separate two-propeller flying machines.
Hopefully, these demonstrations will motivate you to dream up new revolutionary roles for flying machines.
With every year, machines surpass humans in more and more activities we once thought only we were capable of.
Because if machines and the people who run them can accurately read our emotional states, they may be able to assist us or manipulate us at unprecedented scales.
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