Mother of All Machines

By Mark Antony Rossi

A collection of futurist articles that predicted everything from electronic election fraud to drone assassination. Powerful, insightful and easy to digest. The future has been written. But will History get it right!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Soma Publishing
• Release date: Feb 23, 2018

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Mother of

All Machines

Mark Antony Rossi

Copyright © 2001, 2004, 2013, 2018

All Rights Reserved.

Soma Publishing

Table of Contents

Mother Of All Machines

Age of the Drone

I, Robot and the Dark Side of Technology

Babysitter in a Bottle: The Future of Child Neglect

Dream Murder: The Performance Enhancement Nightmare

Extending Our Reach Into Nothingness: Why Technology Can’t Fix Character

Living Will and the Will to Live

Technical Giants, Ethical Infants

The Specter of Genetic Discrimination

Virus in the System: Ethics and Electronics in the Election Process

When Big Brother Is You: The Camera Eye and the Citizen Spy

Paris Discord in the Rearview Mirror

The Road to Digital Dictatorship

Technology Run Amok

About the Author

Mother of All Machines

In this day of thinking machines, we have gone from Mother Nature to Mother Board without catching our breath on what this incredible leap has done to our collective consciousness.

I woke up last night from a nightmare where people were bending knee to a desert to a giant computer slab standing erect like the Washington Monument. It sent wireless commands to the chips in their brains and they obeyed like five-foot termites making the world safer for the Silicon Queen.

We should be abundantly worried, but we are not. And that worries me. The Turing Test was achieved a few months back. And now computers with artificial intelligence can trick grown men into believing the computer is actually a teenage girl. This mechanical milestone was foretold by Alan Turing as a sign that we were on the road to harming our civilization.

Recently an armed Norwegian drone outfitted with artificial intelligence was launched to protect the country’s artic coastline --- it immediately turned around and attacked Norwegian military aircraft. The PR spin was just a glitch but most likely the artificial intelligence program acted like what one would suspect, it identified the enemy, Man, and proceeded to attack.

Mankind risks extinction at worse and slavery at best if we continue to spend time and money making our machines smarter than our children. To give a missile a personality is to give up on the glorious creation called flesh. To give a machine a consciousness is to abandon all faith in anything human.

If we live to see the 22nd century our digital masters will know our numbers ---for our names and identities will be deleted in a nanosecond. And our Mother will control our every thought through the circuits she implants in our guts. She will be a mega-machine built to be the biggest bitch to ever rule a world.

Without freedom –humanity will cease to exist. Remaining are skeletal freaks subsisting on liquid vitamins and solar circuitry. A failed organism ruined by greed.

Age of the Drone

The death of Osama Bin Laden did not come from flying killer robots but rather from stealth helicopters built to hover silently above a target and deliver soldiers to a highly contested area. This monster of a murderer died at the hands of human justice dispensed far from their homeland. But in the age of the drone his death is the exception not the rule.

The Drone, rocket-filled,