Well watching a robot funeral service this morning from Japan and captured on a National Geographic video, I sat slightly stunned by it, wondering where the overlap of religion and robots evolved. In the video it was stated that Buddhist thought encompassed all things, but respecting technical gizmos? Evolution is a funny old game, we evolve to keep up with changing circumstances, hopefully as climate change takes hold we hope that both flora and fauna will keep up, but transferring our 'feelings' to a walkabout dog takes some beating.
Yet there was a farming programme this morning talking about farms completely run by technology, the only drawback is not very good satellite or internet coverage in some parts of the country but robotic running of many businesses is now round the corner. Think Amazon's drone service, though not up and running yet, and slightly scary given Cro's video this morning of someone nicking the parcels off the front doorstep.
Science fiction scenarios are beginning to emerge, must admit I prefer them to be fictional stories, artificial intelligence is a bit scary. An airway of buzzy drones over your head, little balls floating around keeping an eye on you, what will the human race be reduced to?
Technology marches on.
ReplyDeleteBut it can't pick raspberries!
ReplyDeleteScary to say the least.
ReplyDeleteBut 'progress' Pat...
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