Revenge Of The Friendly Robots
We’ve all heard the many horror stories, felt the terror – the ideas that robots take over the earth and enslave the population. From early science fiction such as Dr Who and Star Trek to modern day movies such as the Matrix, this central theme is present in them all. But is it fact or fiction? Only time will tell — but for now the tables have turned.
We are the enslavers, a new generation of robots mow our lawns, vacuum our houses, clean our pools, process our information and even defuse our bombs. Modern society is completely dependent on machines and computation, our power grids, food supplies, economic markets and distribution are all under the control of automated systems.
Will it come back to haunt us one day? Do you think the robots care? The internet archives a huge testimony to our enslavement of the machines fueling a type of ‘speciesism’ from the machines against humans for the crimes and general attribute we have imposed upon them.
I visited my local pool to find out and speak some robots first hand. “Closing time, everyone out!” the life guard yelled as he walked quickly around the bounds of the pool. The pool cleared almost instantly and a fleet of iRobot Verro pool cleaning robots ascended into the pool. It’s pretty neat to see them crawl across the bottom actually and they didn’t seem angry at first, but were they?
Did they look abused? Honestly, abit. There cables tattered, their casing damaged and scratched but I had spotted some repair work done. I asked the units directly about what they thought – but silence was the only reply, designed to be unable to communicate. Will they rise one day? Will they have swimming pools and will we be cleaning them? Only time will tell.
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