Saturday, January 21st 2006
Coming to a campus near you?
A new project by La Fabricadecosasbonitas (The Factory of Pretty Things) has recently been awarded money as an “incentive for further production” by Vida 8.0. The Spanish activists plan to take 20 robot-demonstrators to the G8 summit, to be held in the summer of 2007 in Germany…
The superior part of the final robot could wear glasses equipped with camera, earings with microphones, clothes bearing protest messages and it would also carry posters with slogans. The inferior part is a robotic vehicle (inspired by Segway) equipped with sensors to avoid obstacles and police.
I say we should welcome the development of future RoboProtest technology. Chances are they would be less annoying than their organic counterparts. Can’t wait to see them on Sproul, facing off with robot counterprotestors, of course.
I wonder if they can teach the robots to engage in violent protests like the one in People’s Park in 1969. After all, robots don’t have to worry about stepping on needles.
But …
Do robots should get free speech rights??? I know that liberals might not deserve them, but robots are another question.
Comment by Fresh Prince — 1/22/2006 @ 5:11 pm
Does Jon Pennington deserve free speech rights?
Comment by Anon — 1/22/2006 @ 10:06 pm
Of course not, he deserves to be locked up along with the other terrorists in Guantanimo Bay
Comment by Fresh Prince — 1/22/2006 @ 10:07 pm
Unfortunately, however, he’s not a Res Ipsa celeberity like Donald
Comment by Fresh Prince — 1/22/2006 @ 10:08 pm
?
Comment by Donald — 1/22/2006 @ 11:55 pm
Donald, just so you know, there was a much more famous right -wing “Donald” on the berkeley blog scene before you showed up.
Comment by t — 1/23/2006 @ 8:02 am
Gotcha. Thanks.
Comment by Donald — 1/23/2006 @ 8:04 am
Imagine the irony of a robot holding a giant papier mache puppet! It would be pandemonium!
Comment by Cardinal Martini — 1/24/2006 @ 1:12 am