Dr. Perkowitz advanced the case, citing pacemakers, cochlear implants and insulin pumps as evidence of a steadily eroding distinction between robots and their makers.
Neither camp disputes the inevitability that time and the mass market will eventually erode distinctions.
He erodes distinctions among musical genres as well as the line between composition and improvisation and incorporates sophisticated rhythmic and harmonic phrasing, highly prescribed improvisational sound worlds, and real-time experimentation with sound, among many other structural elements.
If the release of the tapes eroded the distinction between private speech and public behavior, that is a distinction that did not deserve to endure.
As a controlled, commercial environment, it eroded the distinction between the open urban environment and such suburban places as like the shopping mall, the theme park and the residential enclave.
At the same time, it has eroded the distinction between correlation and causation as the new generation of data scientists building and deploying these models conflate their predictive prowess with explanatory power.
And new technology increases the scope for this sort of monitoring, gradually eroding the distinction between work and a life outside it.
Throughout, Mr. Rifkin and his imaginative cinematographer, Ron Forsythe, explore how surveillance devices have complicated the act of deception by eroding the distinction between public and private space.
Get the legal fundamentals right, and banks are generally no better or worse than markets in allocating capital and promoting growth.In any case, financial innovation is eroding the distinction.
Based on this theory, the Pope Center argues for raising tuition in the U.N.C. system and shifting public funding to tuition grants for students attending private colleges, eroding the distinction between public and private institutions.
And new buildings are designed in watered-down period styles, further eroding the distinction between what's real and what's fake, and producing what Mr. Koolhaas calls a "low-grade, unintended timelessness".
