Our Robot Overlords

[Twitchy]

Does anyone have one of these?

For those of you that have never seen one, it's a "Roomba". It's basically just a little robotic vacuum cleaner that spins around your house, cleans the floors and presumably scares the **** out of your cats.

My question is, didn't anyone besides me see The Matrix?

Isn't this the first step to being enslaved by our own creations? Sure it starts innocently enough with cute little vacuum cleaners, but flash forward 300 years from now and your descendants are being grown in pods and stuffed into the backs of machines like Duracells. No thanks!

Call me old fashioned, but I plan to push my own damn vacuum for years and years to come. If any of you have one of these, I imagine that it's plotting against you and your family as you read this; coldly calculating the best time to position itself in front of the staircase and trip you in the night. Beware!

 

[Spare]

I'd gladly sacrifice future generations if It meant I didn't have to vacuum anymore. Now if they would just build a robot that'll load my dishwasher...

 

[Naval_Fluff]

lol 300 years from now you and me will be dead Still, it's a frightening thought. I saw a tv special on war-bots the military was building. Unmanned figthing mechs. How hard would it be to hack one and turn it against us?

 

[Minus]

That would go rather well with my mop. Huh, even the same company.

 

[NeverMore]

I also saw somewhere that there was a Roomba-esk robot that mowed your lawn

one day robots will build shrines to their original predecessors: the Roombas

 

[loketron]

LOL! now thats funny
and i love the matrix...
ive heard at pharmacys theres sometimes robots that come around to collect prescriptions and then go and get on the elevator and go delever then. true story, im in pharmacy tech school so me and this one guy laugh about it all the time. sounds kind of freaky...

 

[Van Hooligan X]

well...humanity had a good run at least let's just saying a disease did us in for the record books...better then the matrix story :S

 

[EveWasFramed]

I'd gladly sacrifice future generations if It meant I didn't have to vacuum anymore. Now if they would just build a robot that'll load my dishwasher...

I have one of those. It's called, "child."
lol Just teasing - mine isn't old enough to load the dishes yet, lol.

 

[Twitchy]

I see how you all are. Willing to trade the future of humanity for a clean carpet!

Well fine! When we're all jacked into pods and submerged in the liquified flesh of our comrades, don't come crying to Twitchy!


* Edited to include this:

Are we giving the robots that run our society too much power? (video)

 

[Naval_Fluff]

I dunno.....the Matrix didn't look too bad to me... Maybe I'm just hella lazy...

 

[Nyktimos]

I see how you all are. Willing to trade the future of humanity for a clean carpet!

Damn right! However, grazing robots that digest organic matter for fuel worry me a little.

 

[Van Hooligan X]

can't we do the total recall tactic and live on mars, and just survive off 1 big ass slow fan thats easily destroyable...it's fool proof

 

[Nyktimos]

can't we do the total recall tactic and live on mars, and just survive off 1 big ass slow fan thats easily destroyable...it's fool proof

And all become hideous mutants? I'd finally fit in somewhere!

 

[Naval_Fluff]

YESH!! I want special powers...NOW

 

[ExiledWays]

When we finally manage to create a true artificial intelligence that can learn and adapt on its own, then we're screwed. I can only hope that our new masters will let me transfer my flawed brain into a superior machine-made one and live on in robotic glory forever!

 

[Nyktimos]

When we finally manage to create a true artificial intelligence that can learn and adapt on its own, then we're screwed. I can only hope that our new masters will let me transfer my flawed brain into a superior machine-made one and live on in robotic glory forever!

Like a Dalek or Cyberman?

 

[Jesse]

My question is, didn't anyone besides me see The Matrix?

I have. If I were freed by Morpheus, but caught by Agent Smith and given the chance to plug back in, I totally would. I'd have a castle with central air and good insulation and a vault room, like Scrooge McDuck has, full of gold coins, cash, and miscelaneous treasures.

 

[Twitchy]

Like a Dalek or Cyberman?

I wouldn't mind transferring my brain into a Dalek when my human body begins to fail.

I could yell "EXTERMINATE!" at appropriate intervals and cause a great deal of concern for the Doctor.

 

[Nyktimos]

Like a Dalek or Cyberman?

I wouldn't mind transferring my brain into a Dalek when my human body begins to fail.

I could yell "EXTERMINATE!" at appropriate intervals and cause a great deal of concern for the Doctor.

Pesky, meddling, know-it-all time lords. They should be wiped out.

This brings another dimension to the robot overlords idea. Instead of being enslaved, why not be absorbed and live in immortal bodies. Especially if some of those bodies are like Sean Young or Daryl Hannah (just watched Blade Runner - Final Cut). But obviously without the built in life span of a replicant.