am i stupider than a photocopier?

[The Sherman]

i was told to use the photocopier the other day and i needed 20 copies of a document that was 18 pages long, now i thought i would have to copy them and then divide all the sheets up and then staple them altogether but no this darn photocopier done it all! it printed them and then stapled tham as the copies were coming out!

its a genius, im thinking like matrix style computers are gonna take over the world! or am i just being paranoid?

[ugly_bob]

I think you're justifyably worried. Imagine what this machine could do if set loose on the world!

[Loosehead]

No not paranoid, I have noticed for sometime that machines are becomming self aware. Expecially photocopiers, I think they are emerging as a new intelligence. Like the other day I needed to print a document and it came out as a handy A5 booklet taking a quarter of the paper. Spooky. Perhaps there is a giant computer called Skynet taking over all the machines. Soon mankind will cease to be necessary and extermination will begin. Don't worry though Arnie will save us!

[dot.hawkes]

As long as they make coffee machines that we have to actually put the coffee in I think we are safe

[happy_face]

Photo copiers have advanced so much since I last used one which was in my school days. In my current work I have to use on on a daily basis and I still discover new things it can do to make my life easier. For example if you put an open book down it'll copy both and split in 2 A4's and not 1 A3. I can also put 10 pages through the feeder and it can turn it into 5 double sided.

It all certainly makes a boring job more fun. Can't wait to see what else I'll discover it can do.... yes I know I'm sad

[SaxyJag]

Just be very careful how you treat it. Abuse it, insult it, or let it know that the current job is important, and it'll go on strike. There's no point going to the one down the corridor, either, because they'll both be in the same trade union and will support one another in these matters - as will the fax machine and every scanner in the building.

[qapmoc]

Yeah great machine. But you know, if you think about it what all these semi-intelligent gadgets do is reduce the thinking and knowledge that the average user has to do/use until you will have no idea how to do the job yourself if you ever have to.
All these type of machines are making it easier to do more and more complex things which you don't understand yourself at all.

You know Osama Bin Laden had it wrong when he attacked the West directly (if you believe that story anyway) what he should have done was flood the Western world with more and more intelligent machines until the societies where totally dependant on them and then made them all self-destruct on the same day. Western civilisations would have collapsed within a week.

[The Sherman]

good answer all of you, it still scares me though, i keep`thinking, what is it thinking now? it seems pleasant and has never broken down so im gonna say its intentions are good!