The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the
future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel.
But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane.
-- Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
The following is a letter to the editor of a news magazine.
"Clearly, the successful use of robots on missions to explore outer space in the past 20 years demonstrates that robots could be increasingly used to perform factory work more effectively, efficiently, and profitably than human factory workers....
