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.'"

Comments

Re:Robots? We don't even deserve refrigerators

[Xeriar]

If you do the math, it's not possible for every family on this planet to have a refrigerator. Not even close. There is not enough energy and not enough resources.

Assuming a ~3-KW fridge (beefy!), 2-person families, that's ~3.333... billion families (I'm being lazy), or 10 terawatts. This, of course, is assuming they're all running all the time.

Total energy production of human civilization: ~15 terawatts - Energy to spare!

Total energy Earth receives from the Sun: 174 petawatts

There needs to be a '-1: Poster is incapable of basic math' mod.

Re:Sounds like....

[davidsyes]

Where the hell is Captain Braxton from the Federation Timeship Aeon when we need him. Ah, he's and Janeway are probably discussion the finer points of alternative slipstreams, conduits, and such.

I say this president is a Vidiian, wraped in Kazon skin, cocooned by Talosian reconstructive techniques, and brought here by Gary Seven by mistake. It escaped and avoided the draft to Vietnam and bided its time until its masters from another part of the uniwerse installed it as occupant of the alienated, umm, alien nation ovulum office.