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Robots Are Net's Future, Says Vint Cerf

Posted by timothy on from the would-be-great-for-remote-grocery-picking dept.

Ned Nederlander writes "Vint Cerf talks the future of the Internet with Ed Cone: 'I expect to see much more interesting interactions, including the possibility of haptic interactions — touch. Not just touch screens, but the ability to remotely interact with things. Little robots, for example, that are instantiations of you, and are remotely operated, giving you what is called telepresence. It's a step well beyond the kind of video telepresence we are accustomed to seeing today.'"

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  1. At last! by Haffner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot readers will finally have satisfying girlfriends.

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    1. Re:At last! by kalirion · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't forget satisfied girlfriends.

    2. Re:At last! by TheLostSamurai · · Score: 5, Funny

      Personally, I'm looking forward to this finally making it possible for me to be able to work from home. I can have a robot sitting in my office chair browsing Slashdot while pretending to work, being controlled by me from my house browsing Slashdot and pretending to work.

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    3. Re:At last! by sm62704 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Only at slashdot would the first post be modded "redundant". Mods, please consult a dictionary, there are several on the internet. That was offtopic, not redundant.

      As this comment will now directly address the parent, it is not offtopic. Mod it -1, lame.

      Dude, robots are going to have to come a long, long way before... oops, bad choice of words.

      Robots are going to have to, erm, get a lot more high tech before they'll satisfy. But at any rate, girlfriends go for twenty bucks here in Springfield. See A Nerd's Guide to Getting Laid. Unfortunately, there's nothing in that journal about robotics or the internet, although it does mention porn.

      What was I talking about again?

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    4. Re:At last! by PMuse · · Score: 4, Funny

      The day when there are easily-available machines that mostly replace women for purposes of sex will be an interesting day in the history of women's liberation.

      It has certainly been interesting since men were replaced.

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    5. Re:At last! by slashdotwannabe · · Score: 2, Funny

      Forgive me if this sounds offensive or trollish; I'm just reminded of a joke I heard in my non-PC days... "If women didn't have pussies, they'd have been hunted to extinction long ago".

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  2. The worst of it.... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... just imagine what manifestation the new V!ag@ spam will take on.

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  3. Re:Heinlein was right it seems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heindsight is always 20/20.

  4. Re:At last! ! ! ! by kubitus · · Score: 1, Funny

    I fully agree and posted my agreement before I read your comment!

  5. Re:Has to be said by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 3, Funny

    But their efforts to refuel their humans are a bit misguided. Not all of us run on radioactive isotopes.

  6. Re:Careful with those robots... by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't forget CLAMPS!

  7. THIS JUST IN: Hot new toy straight out of China by Willis13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Remote robots modeled after the the PRC leader will be the new craze this Christmas.

    I, for one, welcome our new remote maoist robot overlords.

  8. I shall call him... by DeusExMach · · Score: 2, Funny

    Robo-David-Coppafeel.

  9. Re:Real-time Systems don't like latency.... by Gilmoure · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can only really think of one reason to make someone else's phone buzz. Are there others?

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  10. Re:Imagine... if you will by Gilmoure · · Score: 3, Funny

    People would stop filtering spam.

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  11. Obligatory bash.org quote by Fry-kun · · Score: 2, Funny

    #4281
    <Zybl0re> get up
    <Zybl0re> get on up
    <Zybl0re> get up
    <Zybl0re> get on up
    <phxl|paper> and DANCE
    * nmp3bot dances :D-<
    * nmp3bot dances :D|-<
    * nmp3bot dances :D/-<
    <[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

    source
    (using web.archive.org because bash.org is down)

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  12. Re:Robot for President 2008 by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aha, there's another Gore voter.