62 Cognitive Robotics
because for most people that have an income, they earn it by selling their
labor. If labor has become something for your robot to do, how are you going
to earn money? Especially if you don’t have a robot. Then the robots will
by the entropy law that was described earlier expand and start competing
with humans for resources; in the first place energy, but carbon may also be-
come a scarce resource. However, considering the composition of the earth’s
crust, it is likely that the robots will be predominantly made out of silicon
and iron.
An if-you-can’t-beat-them-join-them- scenario in the most literal sense of
the word is described by Kevin Warwick who sees a development of men into
cyborgs as inevitable. Currently in the development ...