Botworld
[Watch the kittens-on-Roomba video on YouTube.]
Instead, this is the kind of domestic robot I mean.
This is Roomba, the robot home vacuum cleaner.
You don’t need to tell it anything. You just put it down in your home, and it figures out where your furniture is and vacuums automatically. When its batteries run down, it goes and plugs itself in.
Meanwhile, you’re free to put your feet up. Or maybe to put kittens on your Roomba, make a video, and stick it on YouTube.
It’s a far cry from HAL in 2001 isn’t it?
You see, I believe there’s been a shift occurring in technology over the past two decades.