"The Calm Before the Swarm: Notre Dame Researcher #3D Prints Swarm of #Robot Insects"
«Even if they’re not explicitly armed, one shudders at the thought of what dystopian conclusions could be drawn from applying collective behavior research to robots or humans. Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, once said in his 1950 book, The Human Use of Human Beings, “If man were to adopt [the ant community] as a pattern, he would live in a #fascist state, …[whereby] each individual is conditioned from birth for his proper occupation” (p. 51).»