John Dillinger Quotes
... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.
John Dillinger, 1886–1962, Technologist & Engineer, Quoted by Hugh Richard Slotten, Radio and television regulation, 2000)See Eigen {72473} for a much earlier statement on computers and control.]
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His 50 year prediction was a little too optimistic although a large percentage of the routine, and some non-routine, jobs had become automated especially in the automobile and other manufacturing arenas, and many other fields. But there were still some other jobs that were still being done without machines in 2014. Asimov was essentially right but a little early in his timing.
See Eigen {633625} for a more explicit personal statement of the choice for the individual.
In the1969 mission to the moon, the lunar module control computer flashed a Program Alarm warning message, and the Mission Control officer Steve Bates, with less than 30 seconds to go, had to make a decision whether to abort the module landing or continue. He spoke to Garman, who concluded that since the message did not repeat, that the message was most likely a spurious message—a false alarm. German told him to go ahead when most others wanted to abort. As Garman was the most familiar staff member with the software, Bates followed his lead and continued the landing. Garman was right and he became known as “The Man who saved the Moon Landing”.
Computers, robots have replaced many more American workers than those who lost their jobs by having them replaced by foreign labor. Ironically, even in counties like China, South Korea, and a number of others, have "liost" millions of jobs to automation thenselves.
Musk was one of the very few technilogical leaders who had great fear about the potential danger of artifical intelligence and thought that it should be regulated.
The Ad Hoc Committee was loosely affiliated with the Students for a Democratic Society.
- Born: June 22, 1903
- Died: July 22, 1934
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Machinist; US Navy {Deserter}; Clerk
John Herbert Dillinger was an American gangster of the Great Depression. He led a group known as the "Dillinger Gang", which was accused of robbing 24 banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times but escaped twice. He was charged, but not convicted of the murder of an East Chicago, Indiana, police officer who shot Dillinger in his bullet-proof vest during a shootout; it was the only time Dillinger was charged with homicide.
