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Mary Shelley’s 1817 masterpiece Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus Credits: http://www.mightyape.co.nz Rossum’s Universal Robots IMITATIONS Credits: http://en.wikipedia.org I, Robot Credits: http://www.ibeatyou.com Credits: http://canadianchristianity.com Credits: http://www.technologyblogged.com SECOND CLASS CITIZENRY CYLONS Credits: http://www.stonebridge.com Credits: http://www.stormgrounds.com/wallpaper/Entertainment/Cylon IMITATIONS DO NOT ALWAYS GO BERSERK SPIELBERG’S AI Credits: http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2001/07 BICENTENNIAL MAN Credits: http://outsidernarratives.blogspot.com “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” ~ Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776 ~ Slaves, women and other oppressed people occupied the role of being an imitation of a human. Credits: http://ebookstore.sony.com Credits: http://remnanttrust.ipfw.edu THE LONG MARCH OF CIVIL RIGHTS 1860 Abraham Lincoln Frederick Douglass Credits: http://www.vanderbilt.edu to Credits: http://www.archives.gov 1960 Lyndon B. Johnson Martin Luther King, Jr. Credits: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org Credits: http://www.drmartinlutherking.net In the past two centuries… Credits: Illustration by Harry Brockway from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. http://foliosociety.org.uk Monsters / Things Credits: http://canadianchristianity.com Robot / Slave Illustration by Harry Brockway from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 1950s Artificial Intelligence 1968s Stanley Kubrick’s HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey Hello Dave Credits: http://spacecollective.org Credits: http://www.moviewallpapers.net Rossum’s Universal Robots (1922) Credits: http://en.wikipedia.org Credits: http://movingfilms.wordpress.com Star Trek: Measure of a Man (1989) Commander Data Credits: http://en.wikipedia.org Robot Woman Human Automaton Slave Young Frankenstein Credits: http://www.blingcheese.com Immigration Credits: http://www.immigrationdnatesting.us/ Civil Rights March Credits: http://www.ccrh.org Rosie the Riveter Credits: http://www.pophistorydig.com The lesson of intertwined cultural histories of techno-human imitations and civil rights is clear: • That which values life, regardless of its form, heritage or substrate, will demand to be respected in its value of life; • Tolerate substrate diversity easily in its beginnings, or tolerate it hard in the end; • If something thinks like a human, it will want to be loved, it will resent being abandoned and it will channel its anger in strange and unpredictable ways; and • Better for all that we love, nurture and respect that which we create in our likeness. [email protected] 20 July 2011