Thanks for posting 'Asimov's Laws of Robotics', McGrath - insightful stuff. There is beneficial use for such technology - environmental cleanup being one that really beckons.

But I think Don hit it right on the head - it depends on the 'progamming' of the humans doing the programming.

Coincidentally enough, "Terminator" is the movie showing on prime TV right now, and my son tells me that "Terminator III" is due out next summer. Pardon me for sounding paranoid but between international news stories and movies and TV programming it's seems people are being 'programmed' to accept this use of robotics as inevitable. "Sieg Heil". And that is scary stuff.

daylia