I seem to remember something about being able to cruise the skies by the year 2000 in flying cars, haven't seen that yet. The year 1984 came and went without much fanfare (Orwellians). The 1970's brought robots into our factories with the scare of millions losing their jobs, didn't see that (My dad was affected by it but just moved to another position). What about the paperless society with the advent of the computer age? I could go on and on....
The simple truth is, humans are still needed to do our human thing (whatever that is or whenever I figure out what 43 means). I wouldn't doubt we will see robots (droids) doing some of our work for us sometime in the future. I'm all for getting my hamburger in 43 seconds instead of 60.
I'm not at all surprised this guy is using kiosks in his little fantasy, afterall, they still use dials and single throw buttons in Star Trek. How about voice activated ordering systems instead? (crap, just lost us another 20 million from the workforce with that idea)
Interesting how it is going to cost $10,000 for a droid..... this is based on what economic principle? Perhaps my 286 motherboard I keep stashed on the shelf is worth something afterall.
I get the idea from this story that droids are a bad thing. Is there anyone else who would want to have their droid go into work and play on slashdot for you instead of you personally having to do it?
Of course he could be right, I have seen the sky fall before.
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I seem to remember something about being able to cruise the skies by the year 2000 in flying cars, haven't seen that yet. The year 1984 came and went without much fanfare (Orwellians). The 1970's brought robots into our factories with the scare of millions losing their jobs, didn't see that (My dad was affected by it but just moved to another position). What about the paperless society with the advent of the computer age? I could go on and on....
The simple truth is, humans are still needed to do our human thing (whatever that is or whenever I figure out what 43 means). I wouldn't doubt we will see robots (droids) doing some of our work for us sometime in the future. I'm all for getting my hamburger in 43 seconds instead of 60.
I'm not at all surprised this guy is using kiosks in his little fantasy, afterall, they still use dials and single throw buttons in Star Trek. How about voice activated ordering systems instead? (crap, just lost us another 20 million from the workforce with that idea)
Interesting how it is going to cost $10,000 for a droid..... this is based on what economic principle? Perhaps my 286 motherboard I keep stashed on the shelf is worth something afterall.
I get the idea from this story that droids are a bad thing. Is there anyone else who would want to have their droid go into work and play on slashdot for you instead of you personally having to do it?
Of course he could be right, I have seen the sky fall before.
Bring on the droids!