Monday, January 28, 2013

CEJ #1

Talking, Walking Objects

Diana Carla

The New York Times
January 26
Opinion

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/opinion/sunday/our-talking-walking-objects.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=technology

    This article is about the robots we already have made and what our future will have to do with them in a few years.  The author thinks that in our near future, we will have things like a sink that scrubs dishes on it’s own, a lamp that bends to follow your paper, a fork that vibrates when you eat too fast, things you can interact with, and more. This is already starting to happen because Simon, a humanoid robot is being developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

    I think that this is what’s going to happen in the future too, because people want work done for them instead of having to do it themselves, manually.  I want things being done for me, but this article reminded me of the story we read in class, There Will Come Soft Rains.  If we have all these appliances, and somehow the human race dies off, will these robotic machines still keep working?  I think that they would lose power eventually, but let’s just hope the human race doesn’t die off!  So, I think that in the near future, we will probably have a lot of appliances that we can interact with.

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