The year, 2060. Elect a robot to Congress or President! Can’t be worse than the human ones we elected in the past.
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According to the late Peter Beter, they have already infiltrated us:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Beter
Google’s beta terminatrix ?
Ronpaulbot. You set the program and it spams blogs with retarded cliches such as “if you don’t like Ron Paul you are a warmonger who hates liberty” and “they’re all zionist neocon stooges.”
Ummm can I haz da Caprica 6 model?
mmmmmmmm . . . Caprica siiiixxxxx.
I was rather partial to the Sharon model, but who says you can’t have both.
http://tinyurl.com/85c2prl
Your welcome.
we elect robots to office now, they are programmes by the corporate overlards.. (yes lards)
anyone catch bill moyers latest
http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2012/01/16/bill-moyers-on-inequality/
durn i forgot the whole “governator” references! 😛
I’d do her. uh,…it.
The kicker is will Disney run with this and up grade its attraction, It’s A Small World?
I saw that at the NY World’s Faire in 1965. Used to drive everyone nuts singing the song over and over and …
Animatronics will get really creepy in the coming decades.
A supposedly true story:
Walt’s animatronic Mr. Lincoln at Disneyland first used red hydraulic fluid.
After it leaked on his white shirt and the crowd thought they were recreating the assassination, they changed to white fluid.
Oh ,the inhumanity of it all!
YaKnow, don’t take it personally, but I hate you, now I have that damn song stuck in my head.
See you on the Robot Reservations, suckers! We aren’t gonna honour those bogus treaties!
With three exceptions. I don’t see much reason robots should look anything like that human.
Those that care for seniors. Those that care for young children. The third group was mentioned by others in the group: sex toys.
I think I might prefer a robot that looked rather insectoid as in it had an exoskeleton.
Reminded me of Shields and Yarnell, from 25 years ago…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DTBl-igJBVE
Mom and Dad, is that you?
I had forgotten how sca, scar, scar, *bump*… scary my parents were.
Yeah, acts a lot like the wife, nothing to see here.
I just found my next girlfriend.
I’m in love.
Okay, so when is the first Brent Spiner look alike robot going to be manufactured?
Why are they always petit female or androgynous male?
Open your pod bay door , honey.
can’t wait! no more going out, no more dealing with B’s, no more life except for sex! Yes!
American women will soon find themselves between a very hard Rock and a very hard place, when ugly reptilian men with money will be able to buy a top notch (do-any-nasty-thing-you-want-SEX-SLAVE) without fear of reciprocation and THEN, sadly, American girls will find out their true value, and when robo-sex slaves can produce offspring, well, American girls will be turning tricks for drinks….the days of the valley girls are coming to an end..
Wow. It’s 1970’s animatronics 2.0. Big whoopee. Still looks completely fake.
Not completely. Take a good look. That face looks more mobile than some women after botox injections.
They have entered the uncanny valley and are rapidly climbing up the other side.
They have an advantage over CG humaniform replicas, the physics is already working for them, as long as they are sitting down. (The most complex form of motion in panoply available to humans is the not-so-simple one of walking. [Walking is controlled falling, something that anyone with a neurological disease fears as control is lost, and so is one’s sense of balance. {The vestibular sense, never mentioned in literature, the real sixth sense, is an omnipresent feature of locomotion.}])
Do the Japanese make little boy robots, too?
There attention to detail on the female gender speaks cultural volumes.
What? You never heard of Astroboy?
I can see the animation of the sculpture Ancient Greece and Rome (as a counter to your assertion Antinous comes to mind,) as now feasible in real-time live-action.
Michelangelo’s David conversing in old Italian might make for an interesting evening as well.
Given the capacity of a Watson-like intelligence controlling the conversation and a Japanese animatronic robot controlling the face and torso, it would be like having a fireside chat with FDR , but one on one.
Switching from stored knowledge a la Watson to a connected one over the internet could/should/would give rise to “dinner with <insert name here>” soirées where one could interact with replicants of all sorts of influential people who are no longer living.
A socratic debate with a Socrates replicant would be fascinating, as long as wormwood is not on the drinks menu. 😉
Humanoid robots will not really take off until they are promoted by the porn industry.
Just realized my post was truncated somehow:
Should have continued: I, for one, welcome our hydraulic and elastic “underlings”!
Uh, dude, its already happening. 🙂
You would not believe what available to geeks and fanboys in Akihabara…
If the year is 2060, then civilization has collapsed and the machines have taken over the mega-corporation that survived the final merger of all institutions after the amillennialists attempted to trigger the apocalypse and the final judgment of Christ the Messiah.
The few surviving humans are scattered throughout remote locations from British Columbia to the Gulf Coast of America.
The East Coast of America is a nuclear wasteland and the Middle East is a smoldering pile of molten glass and rock.
Civilization is attempting to emerge from the cataclysm and reinvent itself. God and theology has been banned where the last humans survive.
Please.
Let’s drop the nuclear bogeyman OK? It will never happen, never. Humans fear death too much to end their wretched existences.
The world will go on the way it has done since people started settling down, made cities and formed civilisation.
Hell they are so predictable that they do not even leave the ancient locations to live in better and more open areas. Why do you think people are still living in the same river delta areas? It is not because there is a wealth of healthy living there. It is because they have been for thousands of years now. All their generations come from there. It is tradition, not real value.
You must accept that humans pick up habits. Those habits become rituals and those rituals that become widely shared become traditions.
And the human has always had a fear of death. It is a tradition that they will not shake. And thus no nuclear holocaust. Humans know far too well what happens when thy die. Despite all the spiritual mumbo jumbo out there.
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What happens when humans die?
They become food for something else, just like any animal.
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I think it’s the jerkiness of the stepper motors that is the most off-putting. They need to be able to smooth out the movement while still allowing for precision.
Still, I don’t really think making robots look like humans is a good idea. We already have whackos who want to give animals the same rights as humans because they are cute… I can see the same nonsense with these things as they become more convincing in their outward appearance.
Perhaps. But I think also the exact duplication of movement. Ask a human to shake their head and they could never move it to such precision, nor would they want to.
Same with the mouth and yes, they are in constant unconscious motion. Which is why she looks fake.
I want a Cherry 2000.
Oh good lord! She frowns!
Director – “Right, now if you could just finish the filming with a frankly disturbing close up of her robotic tits…. FAN-TASTIC”
I hope they make a fully functional caretaker before I need one