On Mar 11, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> Technically they did theorize it -- for instance
> Plato's (I think) thought experiment about how we
> wouldn't need slaves if we had sufficiently advanced
> automata.
>
Actually it was Aristotle. But it was expressed casually enough that
it was probably a commonplace in the Akademie.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos