Wednesday July 27, 2005
Information age sexual revolution?
- Posted by Rob (#1) on July 27, 2005 14:26 CEST
(Japan being an information age ally makes them somewhat Anglosphere right? Especially considering all the Engrish going around there.)
I ask because the Japs developed a female android:
Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a "female" android called Repliee Q1.
She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner.
During the industrial age sexual revolutions brought us mass-produced pornography, vibrators, condoms and blow-up dolls. The information age brought us cybersex and webcam whoring.. is this the next step? This particular model doesn't look very fit, but a partnership with Real Doll might do wonders.
Professor Ishiguru believes that it may prove possible to build an android that could pass for a human, if only for a brief period.
"An android could get away with it for a short time, 5-10 seconds. However, if we carefully select the situation, we could extend that, to perhaps 10 minutes," he said.
That should be enough for the average man.
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Something better than Kyoto
- Posted by Rob (#1) on July 27, 2005 19:13 CEST
Not just because of sunspot theories, unbalanced restrictions, media bias or anecdotical and historical data on medieval temperatures higher than today's. I'm with the US and Australia because the Kyoto costs outweigh the benefits. if any. If we're going to focus on emissions, fine, but let's do it reasonable and come up with something better:
At a news conference in the West Australian capital Perth, Minister Campbell told reporters that Kyoto could not achieve the level of greenhouse gas reductions which the majority of climate scientists believed were necessary if climate change was to be kept within manageable bounds.
"We're going to have a 40% increase in emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, and the world needs a 50% reduction," he said.
"We've got to find something that works better."
New initiatives, to be announced as soon as Thursday. Believed to focus on increased use of information technology rather than patching up decaying installations of the industrial age. Thank you, Anglosphere. The world would not still be looking forward if we had blindly accepted Kyoto.
Something better. I like that motto. Environmentalists don't seem to accept pure disagreement because they are extremely convinced of their unproven theories. But "something better" might just work.
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