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Why the US Consumer Doesn't Deserve A Decent Robot

Posted by Zonk on from the little-dire-don't-you-think dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Sounds like.... by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, he's a robot from the past.

    Don't ask, it's complicated.

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  2. Re:Sounds like.... by Apple+Acolyte · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait a second, Al Gore isn't president.

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  3. But ..... by taniwha · · Score: 4, Funny

    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"

  4. Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto by Real+World+Stuff · · Score: 4, Funny

    Domo...

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  5. Re:Sounds like.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    His al-gore-ithms weren't quite up to the task, I guess.