[lit-ideas] Re: Hmmm... all hype?
- From: Eric <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:13:13 -0500
>>housecleaning gadgets
In a Manhattan apartment, you must vacuum at least every other day. The
dust from millions of people running around, going up and down
elevators, moving objects on or near the surface of the earth, sloughing
off skin layers, etc., never sleeps. A robot would be quickly
overwhelmed, choked in its own task. Once AI was introduced, cleaning
robots and air hepafilters would start a support group which would
organize into a union and there'd be a walk off. Illegal Mexican
machines, stripped of their native smart chips, would increasingly be
used for tasks that American robots and hepafilters "would not do."
These machines would also fail and be discarded at an alarming rate.
On the other hand, it is so nice to go to the countryside where one can
get away with vacuuming only once a week.
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