citizensane
Jul 24, 2002, 01:48 AM
They're both critically acclaimed for ease-of-use and persistent efficiency. They both have dual-syllable corporate names. They've even shared the same narrator . . . why not integrate technologies?
What I'm talking about is a merge between (a future incarnation of) Honda's ASIMO project (http://www.riverdeep.net/current/20...02_robots.jhtml), and Apple's computing services. True, enough think-power to animate a full-sized, fully-mobile, sensory-input-equipped Robo Sapiens is a little out of reach. But not much. Hawking predicts computers with the same level of side-by-side computations as the average Joe before or during 2007. Another says self-aware computers (http://www.sssup.it/~giorgio/movies/ac-eng.html) should be expected by 2029.
Most of us will still be alive then, unless, of course, there are some of you visiting from a hospital gurney or Death Row.
I'd like opinions on this. Do you think Apple will release its OWN, better-constructed robot? An anthropomorphic configuration of old iMac shells with pink-neon eyes? Or should Honda and Apple take the ultimate risk . . . are they already . . . ? And by MWNY 2007, should we expect one of the hosts not to PRESENT a demonstration, but to BE one?
Fondly,
[notice: also posted under "iPod a Tool for Software Thieves," whose original article was deleted due to "expired data". Users were complaining that it offered no new information: they were right. I checked the dates myself, and it was originally released on April 15. For those of you who had to slough through it, I apologize.]
What I'm talking about is a merge between (a future incarnation of) Honda's ASIMO project (http://www.riverdeep.net/current/20...02_robots.jhtml), and Apple's computing services. True, enough think-power to animate a full-sized, fully-mobile, sensory-input-equipped Robo Sapiens is a little out of reach. But not much. Hawking predicts computers with the same level of side-by-side computations as the average Joe before or during 2007. Another says self-aware computers (http://www.sssup.it/~giorgio/movies/ac-eng.html) should be expected by 2029.
Most of us will still be alive then, unless, of course, there are some of you visiting from a hospital gurney or Death Row.
I'd like opinions on this. Do you think Apple will release its OWN, better-constructed robot? An anthropomorphic configuration of old iMac shells with pink-neon eyes? Or should Honda and Apple take the ultimate risk . . . are they already . . . ? And by MWNY 2007, should we expect one of the hosts not to PRESENT a demonstration, but to BE one?
Fondly,
[notice: also posted under "iPod a Tool for Software Thieves," whose original article was deleted due to "expired data". Users were complaining that it offered no new information: they were right. I checked the dates myself, and it was originally released on April 15. For those of you who had to slough through it, I apologize.]
