[gk1]

> Having said that, if you are someone who works on this sort of invention, please take a long, hard look at what you're doing with your life and consider just how this invention is contributing to the advancement of mankind.

This is a silly point that gets repeated far too often. You can make that statement to almost every developer and designer here.

Some people are quite satisfied advancing their own lives and that of those who are close to them.

[MereInterest]

>Some people are quite satisfied advancing their own lives and that of those who are close to them.

That is quite true, and that is the problem. It is an inherently different philosophy, whether one's work should advance humanity as a whole, the local subset of humanity, or the local subset of humanity at the expense of the whole.

[pavel_lishin]

They could always be using the money they're making from selling handwriting-robots to fund homeless shelters and college scholarships.

[droob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo