posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:33 PM
by
Endie
All hail our new robot masters
Slashdot chose to link, today, to a story about robots designed to locate and display snipers. All good stuff.
But, yet again, petty concerns about heavily adapted hoovering robots going shotgun crazy and executing droves of civilians are being allowed to stand in the way of progress towards the creation of our robot overlods, (to whom I wish pre-emptively to state my complete and unquestioning loyalty).
With this in mind, I condemn the pettifogging nit-picking of those such as inventor Glenn Thoren, who says that "it would be dangerous to have a weapon-toting robot that could open fire on its own."
Since he is the inventor, I look forward to hearing of his death in a bizarre lab incident, with police puzzled since nobody else entered or left his lab that evening, where he was working late on a robotic prototype for crushing metal into little bits which he had earlier stated his intention to turn off as a bad idea.
P.S. in my role as the most important thinker writing today in terms of possible returns, I predict that the sniper-detecting robot will soon have twin rocket launchers and under-mounted pulse lasers with which to dispose of sneaky insurgent snipers. I also predict that the gravitational constant g will soon be 11 metres per second squared, and that Avagadro's number is about to double. When it will be known as Harrison's number, of course. As should have been the case all along.