next step in evolution...or is that Intelligent Design

The next time you beat your keyboard in frustration, think of a day where it may be able to sue you for assault. Within 50 years we might even find ourselves standing next to the next generation of vacuum cleaners in the voting booth.Far from being extracts from the extreme end of science fiction, the idea that we may one day give sentient machines the kind of rights traditionally reserved for humans is raised in a British government-commissioned report which claims to be an extensive look into the future.Visions of the status of robots around 2056 have emerged from one of 270 forward-looking papers sponsored by Sir David King, the UK government’s chief scientist. The paper covering robots’ rights was written by a UK partnership of Outsights, the management consultancy, and Ipsos Mori, the opinion research organisation.“If we make conscious robots they would want to have rights and they probably should,” said Henrik Christensen, director of the Centre of Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

of course it would be design--because we know that we designed it.however, it still doesn't help ID, in the sense that the dude who is supposed to have designed us can't be found.

Nor is he very intelligent for that matter, if we are all actually designed. you would think that a backbone meant for walking on all fours (like a dog) would be redesigned to handle the stresses of bipedal motion. I guess he thought we should all suffer back problems.