The Kraftwerk-Asimov ConnectionPosted 19 Feb 2004 at 15:01 UTC by steve 
What robot builder didn't grow up listening to the electronic music of
Kraftwerk? Now the connection between the Kraftwerk and Isaac Asimov's laws of
robotics can be revealed. A new article
in the Japanese paper, Daily Yomiuri, makes it all clear. Asimov created
his laws of robotics and shunned stories in which robots were villified
for the same reason Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider have spent the
last 30
years creating music with analog and digital electronics - they're
technophiles
working toward "complete harmony of man and machine".
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