Robopets, Coming Soon
from the not-quite-roborover dept
As a child I remember dreaming of having robotic pets whilst flicking through my favourite sci-fi books. Amusingly enough it always seemed to a long way off. Then I heard of Aibo (assuming it was just another form of radio controlled robot), I was delighted to find that it was actually an autonomous, simple robot. Now it seems that this one product has sparked off an interest in consumer robotics again, dog.com is the latest of these creations. With a nice low price tag and some pretty advanced emotional displays. Will this be the way that we humans will embrace robots initially, as pets?
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I sort of view change as a gradual death and rebirth so it death seems unescapable (it's just the means that will differ gradual which is fine to most humans or instant, without rebirth which isn't). I believe that we will as a society gradual become one with our artificial creations, so those who don't or can't will probably just be left to their own means (quite literally). If a superior intelligence emerged why would they need to destroy us or enslave us, just leave the planet but I'm sure a lot of us would want to join them. Okay, that's enough of the unfounded craziness that I occasionally cook up.
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