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Frankenstein's Monster
Around the time Ada Lovelace was writing programs, Mary Shelley, a friend of her father's, was writing a novel. In Frankenstein, inanimate flesh is brought to life. Life it may not be, but engineers are now doing pretty well in creating humanoid machines that can do their own thing. The 21st century is undoubtedly going to be the age of the robot. Maybe it's time to start thinking about the consequences in case they gain a sense of self.
