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martyb
on Friday September 04 2015, @07:37AM
from the What-would-you-call-a-machine-that-paddles-a-boat-for-you?--A-rowbot! dept.
from the What-would-you-call-a-machine-that-paddles-a-boat-for-you?--A-rowbot! dept.
A while back we discussed robot furniture. Now a restaurant in San Francisco is trying to build and run a restaurant run entirely by robots. Now granted, these are not robots like in Asimov's Robot Series. Instead of humanoid-style robots, these are highly specialized, single-purpose machines.
I can foresee a future populated by many, many robots, in which we didn't notice that we were surrounded by them — we were looking for Rosie the Robot and instead got inconspicuous robots that act as automated furniture and interactive surroundings.
What do my fellow Soylenters think? Are we on the verge of a "Robot Revolution" — even if it doesn't look like how 50s sci-fi imagined it would?
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A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday September 05 2015, @02:50PM
True. I think the first such story is an optimistic view of the future, more likely it will be sealed off cities akin to escape from XX, and only because bullets will cost too much.
The second part of Elysium makes no sense - why wouldn't such a superior society allow far more refugees than those who happen to have inherited some good fortune.