Not germane to the article -- but I just noticed that our current front page shows conclusively that the IEET leads the world in bald white guys.Noted, without elaboration.
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Sunday, July 03, 2011
Apparently, "The Future" Is Still A White Penis
Mike Treder recently posted this comment to an article published on the blog for the stealth transhumanist Robot Cult outfit I have long designated White Guys of The Future, that is to say, the so-called "Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies" ("so-called," because the ethics on display there are a mixed bag to say the least and because the "technologies" that really preoccupy these guys -- history shattering Robot Gods, paradise providing and immortalizing Nanobots, sexy sexy Slavebots real or virtual, "Green" Mad Scientist weather machines and so on -- are never really "emerging," except in science fiction novels):
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> sexy sexy Slavebots real or virtual. . . are never
> really "emerging," except in science fiction novels
Sometimes, it seems, they actually emerge in newspaper
ads.
From your blogroll:
"Miss Honeywell (1968)"
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2011/7/1/miss-honeywell-1968.html
From the _oakland Tribune_, October 9, 1966:
"The Hamilton Beach robot 'housewife of tomorrow' will be
demonstrated in our 15th and Broadway window. She [of course!]
is the amazing robot who is programmed to do all the
cleaning. . . Also demonstrations of Hamilton Beach's
amazing blenders and carving knives."
Well, Robert A. Heinlein "predicted" the existence of
general-purpose household robots by 1970, in his 1956
story "The Door Into Summer". The company manufacturing
them, founded by a genius inventor and entrepreneur,
is called "Hired Girl, Inc." [ouch!].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_into_Summer
I think the world might have been ready for the 'housewife
of tomorrow' in 1966, but in the more cynical world
of a decade later we only had _The Stepford Wives_. ;->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives_%281975_film%29
And Dale, did you know there was a "car of the future"
named after you?
"The Three-Wheeled Dale (1975)"
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2010/1/16/the-three-wheeled-dale-1975.html
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