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Life Imitating All The Wrong Art

Posted in Art, science with tags , , , , on August 3, 2009 by jdhastings

The Newscientist today brings us a photo of people wearing artificial leg type things, that are now being mass produced in Japan:

What’s wrong with that, you ask? Nothing in and of itself. These machines will be great for the disabled, and any number of other useful tasks. However, I have reason to believe that the product itself is just a ruse and a front hiding the radical agenda of a doomsday cult.

How can I say that?
A) The Company’s name is Cyberdyne, aka the company that invents the freaking Terminator computers and
B) They named this product HAL, as in the computer that killed all but one member of the Jupiter mission back in 2001.

Come on, people, they’re ADVERTISING their allegiance to the Robot Revolution here? Does nobody else care? Will we stare down the barrel of the gun they’re pointing at us and do nothing but call them cute??

Be afraid, people. Very afraid.

Also, this device will probably be used by perfectly healthy people and just make us all fatter and lazier.

-JD

Do Not Let Robots Wash Your Face

Posted in Links, Toni Tiller, video with tags , , , on June 28, 2009 by Toni Tiller

Robots Are Our Friends

Posted in Art, Toni Tiller, video with tags , , on May 31, 2009 by Toni Tiller

And You Thought I Was Paranoid

Posted in Art, news with tags , , , , on May 11, 2009 by jdhastings

Yeah yeah, everybody gets a kick over old JD’s robot paranoia, but did anyone happen to know that there’s a Robot Hall-of-Fame? Okay, in and of itself that isn’t cause for concern, but did you know that the robots had already inducted the freakin’ TERMINATOR??

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But Is It Art?: The Inevitable Robot Rebellion

Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art with tags , , , , on March 11, 2009 by jdhastings

I know what you’re thinking to yourself right now after reading that headline. You’re thinking, “But which robot rebellion is he talking about? The kind from the Matrix? Or one of the ones from Battlestar Galactica, Blade Runner, the Terminator, War Games, 2001, or even the non-rebellion rebellions spelled out in the original Robots series by Isaac Asimov?”

And to your query I respond: Yes.

You see, I am an unapologetic Sci-Fi dork. I find the world destroying issues of the fictional future to be way more cool than any of the kinds we’re actually facing today.

So I felt a completely inappropriate thrill today when I ran accross a story titled, Regulate Armed Robots Before It’s Too Late on Newscientist.com. Could the dystopic future I’ve loved since childhood finally be here? We can all hope.

But don’t stress yourself out worrying too much. Afterall, Will Smith still walks among us.

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