Three Laws of Robotics quick examples: the tobacco industry, the automotive industry, the nuclear industry. Not one of these has said from the outset that fundamental safeguards are necessary, every one of them has resisted externally imposed safeguards, and none has accepted an absolute edict against ever causing harm to humans.) David Langford has suggested a tongue-in-cheek set of laws: Roger Clarke (aka Rodger Clarke) wrote a pair of papers analyzing the complications in implementing these laws in the event that systems were someday capable of employing them. He argued "Asimov's Laws of Robotics have been a very successful literary device. Perhaps ironically, or
Sci-Fi on the Rock "His Majesty's New World"), comic-book artist Paul Tucker ("The Underworld Railroad", "Google John Smith"), actor Brian Downey ("Lexx", "Millennium"), actor Jeremy Bulloch ("The Empire Strikes Back", "Octopussy"), author William Meikle ("The Midnight Eye" series), horror author Matthew LeDrew ("Black Womb", "Roulette") and author Shannon Patrick Sullivan ("The Dying Days"). Sci-Fi on the Rock's first festival was held on April 1, 2007 at the Hotel Mount Pearl (formerly Chateau Park) in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. It featured special guest authors Kenneth Tam and Shannon Patrick Sullivan, and local business/fangroup, Vader Party. As well as featuring special guests, the festival featured workshops throughout