None other than the illustrious Bill Gates has written an article about the inevitable ubiquity of mass-culture robots. (Fellow blogger Peter Davidson has been making this proclamation for a while now). And at Wired’s NextFest technology showcase, they featured an entire section on this theme called Robot Row, replete with android medical assistants and ballroom dancing robo-beings:
I think the key here will be the integration of robots into our current value sets. In other words, literal images of robots simply cleaning house and making dinner will be necessary, sure. But so will exploring how these new assistants will navigate terrain such as spirituality, family, interconnectedness, and a natural world in critical flux. So what will this mean for our visual landscape? More ads like this perhaps?

Or videos such as this one?

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