No, apartheid was gone at the fall of Soviet Union.
South Africa was one of the few western controlled (understand "populated by white people") countries in Africa, with several resources (read "diamonds").
The West backed up the apartheid expansionist policy in order to keep the bordering countries from promoting "communist" ideals among the black minority.
When Sovient Union went down, suddenly the west stopped occupying South American, African etc countries.
It seems that this country will be experiencing a large scale robotization earlier than anyone expects.
If the government plans go as planned, the korean society should have robots in people's everyday life within 10 years!
This raises a lot of interesting questions:
- how will Korea deal with the arrival of workers that never get tired or seek and don't ask for a salary?
- what will be the economic impact of all the redudancies?
- how will the next generation of kids deal with those?
If people are becoming decreasing responsible and more and more assisted in the next years, what would a person's relation be with mankind, and robots?
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No, apartheid was gone at the fall of Soviet Union. South Africa was one of the few western controlled (understand "populated by white people") countries in Africa, with several resources (read "diamonds"). The West backed up the apartheid expansionist policy in order to keep the bordering countries from promoting "communist" ideals among the black minority. When Sovient Union went down, suddenly the west stopped occupying South American, African etc countries.
Who saw that one coming?
One would expect Japan to come up with robotic advances (if you're an aficionado of Ghost in the Shell, Macross and other such series).
Instead, it seems South Korea is becoming a major actor in both robotics and cloning / stem cell research.
Earlier this week we were reading about Korea introducing Robotic Teachers and Robotic Aides.
It seems that this country will be experiencing a large scale robotization earlier than anyone expects.
If the government plans go as planned, the korean society should have robots in people's everyday life within 10 years!
This raises a lot of interesting questions:
- how will Korea deal with the arrival of workers that never get tired or seek and don't ask for a salary?
- what will be the economic impact of all the redudancies?
- how will the next generation of kids deal with those?
If people are becoming decreasing responsible and more and more assisted in the next years, what would a person's relation be with mankind, and robots?