Comments on: South Korea To Test 1,000 Robots

By: Centrally Networked Life Forms - Pop Occulture Blog

Centrally Networked Life Forms - Pop Occulture Blog — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:32:40 +0000

[...] Thanks to some comments left by Daniel, I’ve been thinking out some other implications of this recent announcement by South Korea that they will be testing 1,000 centrally and remotely controlled robots. Daniel says he would be cool with having autonomous (non-networked) robots like R2D2 or C3P0, but that he wouldn’t be okay with having a robot in his home that might be remotely controlled and may be reporting back on his activities. [...]

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:42:54 +0000

When you put it like that, it makes me wonder why human beings aren’t hooked into a central processor. Or maybe we are, but we just don’t recognize it. Either way though, what would be the benefit of having a networked life form that either isn’t connected centrally or doesn’t know that it is connected centrally? I ought to make that question into it’s own post and pull in some old ideas about using technology to enhance compassion - cause I think we covered some similar ground a while back.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:32:30 +0000

I like the idea of having droids, but not the idea of having them all hooked up to a central computer and the possibility/probability of having them spy on you in your home. Independant droids like R2-D2 or C3PO would be cool, not the Trade Federation droid army hooked up to a central processor.

By: slomo

slomo — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:24:45 +0000

Woo hoo indeed….

By: alistair

alistair — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:00:53 +0000

my kids have had toys that speak and read stories and they`ve turned out o.k………what`s the diff if a device has a larger cpu or software?

By: Kylark

Kylark — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:24:26 +0000

Robots reading to kids = sad.