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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. He's so good at being demure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What Vint is really trying to say is we're all going to have sex remotely with teledildonics in the future. Which essentially means we'll be screwing our computers.

    I for one welcome our teledildonic overlords.

    In soviet russia, computer screws you.

  2. remote tactile feeling will be it! by kubitus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    NOT SO MUCH ROBOTS

    tele-sex will be THE HIT of the internet

    remote touch/feeling will allow both person to person body-interaction

    but will allow also interaction with a virtual sex-partner

    or with a sex partner who is real, but wears the virtual look of some sexual attractive other

  3. Penny Arcade already covered this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/1/

  4. As usual... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...the porn industry is way ahead of the curve.

  5. Careful with those robots... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Crush! Kill! Destroy!