DrManhattan Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:42 am
Greets Mudra
mo' robots:
It is possible that once this robots thing becomes undeniably evident as something that is occurring, the AI we funded with the lure of fun things, I think there will become a situation where there will be privatized military ownership and even underground ownership, self made robotics - while it does not have to be a humanoid walking machine, it would also surprise you at how little an AI needs to do to be efficient as a tool of oppression. The terminator movies were really good, but they were movies. The kinect is a box on top of your TV. That's pretty much enough. Soon enough they will sell 3D glasses and put the person right into the game where they themselves are part of the 3D amazement gimmick.
when this happens, you'll know they are getting close to off-the-box (off of the tv) technologies being introduced to the public, a 3D camera phone iphone anyone? Big windowsMobile + xbox live selling points? Sell the xbox people the phone who already use facebook, netflix, twitter, and all sorts of other things right through their xbox? Break into the market AND take it by storm from apple as microsoft's new turf? History repeats... Even the Sony PSP phone is no secret, and these devices will interface directly with the entertainment device, becoming a "must have" for their huge installed base of consumers who are pretty much blinded by the games. Michael Pachter, a big time analyst at wedbush morgan for video games once said that video games are a trojan horse. Anyone saying that but him could be taken as ambiguous, but a man in his position is not to be taken lightly, if ambiguously at all.
Now you're 3D communicating and the device is doing it's "secondary" function of allowing you to communicate in mind blowing ways, while the data is also being learned from. Yelling into the phone? I have seen many robot movies where the robots are shown learning, assessing threats. Robocop, many. But these are just movies.
The fact that "they" (the not so nice people of the world, I suppose) have the ability to sense buzzwords in worldwide communications, filtering everything that is done, is evidence enough that it doesn't stop there. It did not even begin there. We were sold voice recognition software whose sales benefited the digital wiretap. Surely this is proof of a track record for what I suggest. New games are coming to market with performances by real actors using state of the art facial and body motion recognition.
This technology has been in the works for a long time, and now it is going to be sold to the mass markets as entertainment. Once you capture emotions, feelings, words, full facial recognition, and are capable of playing back real-time (ala the video game rendering), and it is all each little recognition element named and indexed and someone is able to code when the characters on the screen ought to do something, then "they" are capable of recognizing every facial expression we make. At first in personal devices, and this will fund the things put into perhaps cars, a great example of another trojan technology. OnStar, meet Drowsy Detector. You get the idea.
"But they will only watch for hostility and bad things, it will protect us"
I'll leave that for someone else to mention all the times in the past that show us that security technology ultimately ends up hurting the people it is intended to protect. Even so, I am sure a sizable percentage of the Earth's people, if presented all at once with these notions, would likely be okay with it anyway, themselves looking at things in terms of numbers, percentages, the so-called greater good. At the end of the day it is bad because it instills fear into the world population, criminal, hostile, peaceful, law abiding alike. So it's gotta go.
The child will be raised in these facilities, unless rescued, and will be become gradually cybernated on a physical/genetic level until a part flesh/part machine cyborg is created.
