Embodied, Inc. produced a nice AI use case: a pet “social robot” called Moxie to entertain and teach children with social difficulties. It specifically marketed the $799 gadget as a “Robot for Auti…
The unexplored part of the Diamond Age, what if the A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer servers are shut down.
E: Btw, you yourself will need to imagine a rant here about this kind of tech comes for the vulnerable first, and then is often removed from them when they could be depending on it without much fanfare as well. See also the people with eye implants who are no longer supported by the people behind them.
At best you end up with the Gunther Hermann story from Deus Ex, forced into retirement and made disposable when last generation’s top-of-the-line becomes this generation’s unusable trash.
The unexplored part of the Diamond Age, what if the A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer servers are shut down.
E: Btw, you yourself will need to imagine a rant here about this kind of tech comes for the vulnerable first, and then is often removed from them when they could be depending on it without much fanfare as well. See also the people with eye implants who are no longer supported by the people behind them.
At best you end up with the Gunther Hermann story from Deus Ex, forced into retirement and made disposable when last generation’s top-of-the-line becomes this generation’s unusable trash.
Yes at best sadly.