If former decade was about internet boom and network connectivity, the next will definetely be about robotics. The problem about robotics today is that they are tough to build - I mean the development of both hardware and software was until now the domain of academic work. Than you Sony for doing what IBM was doing in the 80's with the personal computer. Someone must set a standard and make parts interchangable.
I'm just sorry that these AIBO things are so expensive. Just imagine the possibilies of entering mainstream at an affordable prize. The whole robotics market and development will boom and soon you will able to program your own humanoid machine to do some serious work for you around the house.
History repeats itself. Our society will again be built on slaves (for some time). After that...
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If former decade was about internet boom and network connectivity, the next will definetely be about robotics. The problem about robotics today is that they are tough to build - I mean the development of both hardware and software was until now the domain of academic work. Than you Sony for doing what IBM was doing in the 80's with the personal computer. Someone must set a standard and make parts interchangable. I'm just sorry that these AIBO things are so expensive. Just imagine the possibilies of entering mainstream at an affordable prize. The whole robotics market and development will boom and soon you will able to program your own humanoid machine to do some serious work for you around the house. History repeats itself. Our society will again be built on slaves (for some time). After that ...
"Hybrid Robot Uses Rat Brain" George W. Bush must have been the prototype...
... just a toxic needle in a air-compressed tube and you are ready for an assasination...
I'm trying not to sound old, but he should rather useful with the money - like saving a few thousand lives in Africa or Iraq.
Have you ever heard of a thing called European Union? (... Rumsfelds God'ol Europe... these are the real Europeans).
Maybe it should be renamed for history purpouses - freedom plane ! Burn a Bush!
The Guernica at the UN is not an orginal!
What if America was a real democracy and not run by oligarhic oportunists... ?
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Unlikely... Impossible