Slashdot Mirror
Why the US Consumer Doesn't Deserve A Decent Robot
SkinnyGuy writes "PC Magazine has up a lengthy look at how differing cultural approaches and expectations for robots are setting the stage for Amercian consumers to miss out on the best robots have to offer. The first paragraph is kind of funny:
'Someday the robots will rise up and kill us all. They'll record our lives, obliterate our privacy, set off nuclear war, and eventually turn on us and eat our brains. If any of this ever did happen, it would serve us right. We, at least American consumers, don't deserve the future that robots really have to offer.'"
No, he's a robot from the past.
Don't ask, it's complicated.
The enemies of Democracy are
Wait a second, Al Gore isn't president.
Part of the hardcore faithful who believed in Apple long before it was cool again to do so
PC Magazine has up a lengthy look at how differing cultural approaches and expectations for robots are setting the stage for Amercian consumers to miss out on the best robots have to offer.
Look, they have stairs in their houses, and we have stairs in our houses. What's so hard about this?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
those on top have been saying that about their home help for millenia .... "the robots will rise up" is exactly what the romans were worried about ..... cue long line of Blender look-a-likes heading for the scrap heap saying "I am Sparticus"
Why would a robot want to eat our brains exactly?
Unless you're talking about ZOMBIE robots, in which case I'll have to update my Zombie Plan
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Domo...
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
...welcome our new robotic overlords!
-- Boycott Shell
My dreams of a fully functional and cooperative Real Doll are ruined!
His al-gore-ithms weren't quite up to the task, I guess.
With hookers! And blackjack!
In fact, forget the uprising!
Thousands of years ago into the future Christmas was the time for the Great Red Ape in Space to descend upon the white house, painting it with decorative red and green blood of Christmas elves, moving it to the north pole and claiming that "I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily. That's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military", which is absolutely correct. You cannot win christmas militarily which is why I have come from thousands of years ago into the future to kill that great red ape, santa claus and run for president. My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. Decisions like those that apply when considering the value of the social welfare of the Indonesian pierced spider monkeys, BUT at the end of the day I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'THIS is what we're going to do. We're going to sell the white house soaked in the blood of christmas elves to Glenn Danzig so I can make love to Sigourney Weaver....'
Thousands of years ago into the future...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force_villains#Cybernetic_Ghost_of_Christmas_Past_from_the_FutureBushisms
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htmsynthesis is divine.
Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
Why just restrict ourselves to "fem" bots...
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Agreed. I often find myself saying, "Yeah, I want a robot to get me beer"
...and here I thought he was talking about 'furbots'
--- Do you believe in the day?
It's racist. We prefer the terms "artificial person" or "android".
Beauty is in the beholder of the eye.
Just so long as they are willing to open the pod bay doors, I'm all for it.
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done on the people who are still alive.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471711/Ahhh, what an awful dream. Ones and zeroes everywhere... and I thought I saw a two.