Posted on 04/10/2006 4:45:54 PM PDT by KevinDavis
If American astronauts fly to Mars in the next few decades, they might be chaperoned by NASA's version of "thinking machines" _ electronic brains that will run the spaceship largely without human aid and make lightning-fast decisions to guard the crew against danger.
These machines won't be lovable-looking, clankety-clank robots like Robbie in the 1956 film classic "Forbidden Planet" or his similar-looking, near-hysterical cousin ("Danger, Will Robinson!") in the 1960s TV show "Lost in Space."
Nor are the machines likely to look or sound like the red-eyed, suave-voiced Hal of the 1968 blockbuster "2001: A Space Odyssey."
(Excerpt) Read more at shns.com ...
Perhaps they'll look and sound like a Toyota.
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