Living in the God-Damned Future!

[andrewducker]

A brilliantly done talk - I've been looking forward to this kind of tech for about ten years now, and it's amazing to see it finally coming to fruition.

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Is it Rick Astley?

[cdave]

(X) I don't watch internet videos without descriptions.
(X) I don't watch internet videos at work.
( ) I never watch internet videos.

Re: Is it Rick Astley?

[andrewducker]

So, my description of a brilliantly done talk on future-tech that I've been looking forward to for the last ten years isn't good enough?

Re: Is it Rick Astley?

[zz]

it's the perfect disguise!

Re: Is it Rick Astley?

[cdave]

Is is a flying car?

Re: Is it Rick Astley?

[andrewducker]

I don't find the actuality of flying cars terribly interesting, so no :->

Re: Is it Rick Astley?

[cdave]

Hmm. 10 years ago we had the early web. Is this some kind of natural semantics local search thing where you speak to your mobile phone and it gives displays a route to your nearest Thai restaurant?

Re: Is it Rick Astley?

[andrewducker]

Nope - although something like that (only better) was in the video I posted yesterday.

:->

Re: Is it Rick Astley?

[cdave]

I cheated and looked at the other comments :( .

Pity I was enjoying this game.

Re: Is it Rick Astley?

[andrewducker]

Bah! Me too!

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

There was something positively frightening about the "physical Turing test" - it sent shivers down my spine!

And I find the prospect of organic, self determining robots scary.

Too much Isaac Asimov as a kid, I guess...

[figg.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ay5VC9ba4

walking robots are cool.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Now that video is beautiful...and SCARY!!!

Thanks for the link!

[andrewducker]

Thanks - that was great!

[zz]

i was impressed that they'd got the recovering from losing balance so natural that i had an immediate "argh, poor thing, that's cruel!" reaction. kind of a legs version of the crossing the uncanny valley.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

... and a complex mixture of guilt/shame/inadequacy that I am not personally working on anything ground-breaking.

[andrewducker]

I thought you didn't believe in that kind of thing?