The last two weeks were hectic (good, hectic = more cashflow) and right now I have the grandmother of all flu’s. So let’s use the time …
When I was a youngster, we only saw horror movies about robots and aliens. The invasion of the robot, so to speak, and the humans could do nothing against it’s super powers.
I don’t know when it changed, perhaps with ET and Robocop? But these days robots are on our side. Technology is becoming more and more “human.”
Remember the Bionic man? Part man, part machine? Remember how the machine part gave him super powers? It is happening in real life! Experiments are very well advanced with paralysed people and special, high technology suits that will enable them to walk independently. That is a very positive robot effect!
And what about the Google Car? A driverless robot car? Don’t believe me? Rread about it here and here. This one excites me! Just imagine what it can do for parking lots! I ask my car to take me to the office while I do a Sudoku. I sent it back home and tell it to fetch me at a certain time. Or perhaps even better, we have a number of these that travel a certain route and I flag it and it takes me where I want to go. Like a taxi. In South Africa with our irresponsible minibus taxis, this should happen tomorrow.
I have no doubt that technology will improve our standard of living. When I think of Virgin Galactic and galatic travel within reach, Google cars, I involuntarily think of the Jestons, that old futuristic comic. I can see how we will have robot domestics that clean up, do the washing and ironing (and perhaps even wash my back).