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People, there is no such thing as “the New York literary scene”; no actual writers under the age of 75 can afford to live in New York City, nor do they have any desire to live there. The secret of real achievement in the arts, as someone wise once told me in my youth, is low overhead.
The idea of a robot uprising has captured our imagination for over a century. The term *robot* comes from a 1920 Czech play called *Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti*, in which synthetic life-forms unhappy with their working conditions organize and revolt, leading to the extinction of humanity. Before their demise, the human characters wonder whether it would have been better to ensure that the robots could not speak a universal language, whether they should have destroyed the Tower of Babel and prevented their children from unseating humanity from its heavenly kingdom.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
The concept of red teaming and blue teaming emerged in the early 1960s. One early example of red teaming involved the think tank [RAND Corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation), which did simulations for the [United States military](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military) during the [Cold War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War). "Red team" and the color red were used to represent the [Soviet Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union)
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