I was watching Terminiator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles last night and as I watched the robots put bar codes on their captive humans, all I could think was: Seriously? Bar Codes? As we speak bar codes are becoming obsolete. I can't imagine that bar codes will be used even fifteen years from now. And would a robot even put a visual tag on a human? Wouldn't they just embed a chip under the skin? Wouldn't it be more practical for robots to be able to 'sense' different humans by internal identifiers?
As I watched the episode I started to think, what would robots dream of inventing? Would a world full of robots be more advanced and in what ways? In the show we see technological advances, but what would be the point of advancing technology for technology's sake? What would motivate a robot to create something new?
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(Did you just write: "Seriously attractive? Seriously?" "Well, yes, my dear, I did. Et voila!".
I like the poetry of Polichinelle, or Scaramouche, or whoever the hell he or she in drag is, against the digital dots background.
Second and more to the point, I think robots dream of electric sheep and will devise extremely effective methods to shear them and produce wool to clothe their human captives. And in this, there will be poetic justice, since the first computational device was the Jacquard loom.
I also think it fair to imagine that their female divinity will be Ada Byron Lovelace. The male being Babbage, and the first robot relic, his Analytical Engine.
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