Nov 202019
In 1985, Rockwell wondered about whether there was a business case for space-based telepresence. At the time, the technology was relatively new, clunky, primitive; today it would be vastly superior and would only hardly ever attain self awareness and decide to overthrow its human masters. But nearly 40 years ago, the systems would doubtless have been slow, unwieldy and difficult to use effectively and reliably.
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