Even with the advent of more democratizing UI, as on the Android and iOS smartphones we use every day, the bar remains too high for something we intend to use while safely controlling potentially deadly machines.
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It was hard to imagine a more deadly killing machine, though Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played the less advanced machine tasked with protecting some John Connor kid (Edward Furlong) and his mom Sarah Connor Linda Hamiltonn) who would save the world from human-killing robots of the future, was tasked with destroying it.
An operation cured the problem, and from then on Johnson be came a deadly killing machine, not only the master of the Spitfire but also - unlike almost everyone else - a master of accurate deflection shooting, learned against agile rabbits.
Unfortunately, however, he is the Commander-in-Chief of the largest, most deadly military machine that the world has ever seen — it has close to two thousand deployed nuclear warheads — and many of the checks and balances that constrain him in other areas of government don't apply to starting a war.
Described as a deadly fighting machine, it transformed the whole idea of warfare and sparked a dangerous arms race.
In fact Dreadnought was described at the time as 'the most deadly fighting machine ever launched in the history of the world'".
Some suspect the impact will be comparable to 1968, when Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" made HAL the world-famous symbol of deadly thinking machines.
In between them and safety are rivers and train tracks, the "elil" (the "enemies," foxes, owls and such) and the mindless, deadly "hrududil" (machines) of humans.
