2. Mary Shelley’s 1817 masterpiece Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus Credits: http://www.mightyape.co.nz

3. Credits: http://en.wikipedia.orghttp://en.wikipedia.org Credits: http://canadianchristianity.comhttp://canadianchristianity.com Credits: http://www.ibeatyou.comhttp://www.ibeatyou.com I, Robot I MITATIONS Credits: http://www.technologyblogged.comhttp://www.technologyblogged.com Rossum’s Universal Robots

4. Credits: http://www.stormgrounds.com/wallpaper/Entertainment/Cylon S ECOND C LASS C ITIZENRY C YLONS Credits: http://www.stonebridge.comhttp://www.stonebridge.com

5. SPIELBERG’S AI Credits: http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2001/07http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2001/07 Credits: http://outsidernarratives.blogspot.comhttp://outsidernarratives.blogspot.com I MITATIONS DO NOT ALWAYS GO BERSERK B ICENTENNIAL M AN

6. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” ~ Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776 ~ Credits: http://ebookstore.sony.com Credits: http://remnanttrust.ipfw.edu Slaves, women and other oppressed people occupied the role of being an imitation of a human. In the latter 1700s women had no rights… In the latter 1700s slavery was a part of life…

7. Credits: http://www.vanderbilt.eduhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu Credits: http://www.archives.govhttp://www.archives.gov THE LONG MARCH OF CIVIL RIGHTS 1860 Credits: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.orghttp://www.websters-online-dictionary.orgCredits: http://www.drmartinlutherking.nethttp://www.drmartinlutherking.net 1960 Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln Martin Luther King, Jr.Lyndon B. Johnson to

8. In the past two centuries… Monsters / Things Credits: Illustration by Harry Brockway from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. http://foliosociety.org.uk Robot / Slave Credits: http://canadianchristianity.comhttp://canadianchristianity.com Illustration by Harry Brockway from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

9. Credits: http://spacecollective.orghttp://spacecollective.org 1950s Artificial Intelligence Hello Dave 1968s Stanley Kubrick’s HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey Credits: http://www.moviewallpapers.nethttp://www.moviewallpapers.net Artificial Intelligence made Frankenstein-like stories plausible The creation of a credible, digital person

10. Credits: http://movingfilms.wordpress.comhttp://movingfilms.wordpress.com Rossum’s Universal Robots (1922) Credits: http://en.wikipedia.orghttp://en.wikipedia.org

11. Star Trek: Measure of a Man (1989) Credits: http://en.wikipedia.orghttp://en.wikipedia.org Commander Data Civil Rights of Digital People

12. Human Woman Slave Robot Automaton

13. Credits: http://www.blingcheese.comhttp://www.blingcheese.com Immigration Credits: http://www.immigrationdnatesting.us/http://www.immigrationdnatesting.us/ Civil Rights March Credits: http://www.ccrh.orghttp://www.ccrh.org Rosie the Riveter Credits: http://www.pophistorydig.com Young Frankenstein

14. 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.

15. Thank you. 20 July 2011Martine4@gmail.com