On 04/01/09, Jeff Snyder quoted Bob Ackley: Greetings From A New.

BA> Note that Sony has invented a robot dog that behaves quite a bit like a
BA> real one - although it doesn't leave 'calling cards' like real ones do.  I
BA> suspect they might have picked up the idea from the robot pet dog in
BA> Battlestar Galactica those many moons ago.  In any case, they're also
BA> pretty far along with robot people, too.


Yes, I am aware of Sony's dog. If I recall correctly, it is called AIBO, and
according to Wikipedia, it stands for "Artificial Intelligence roBOt. It is
also a homonym for the Japanese word for "pal".

Yes, I remember the dog from the original Battlestar Galactica series. In
fact, last year, and the early part of this year, I did an entire watching
marathon of BSG 1978, BSG 1980, BSG 2003 mini-series, BSG webisodes, and of
course, the BSG remake series, which just ended two weeks ago. BTW, that BSG
dog-like creature was called Muffet, or Muffit, or something like that.

Oh, also, just remembered...in the final moment of the finale of the BSG
remake, they showed all of these different kinds of robots, which, of course,
included AIBO and other more human-looking robots.

I've been keeping track of nanotechnology and robotics for a number of years
now. I find it interesting, as well as somewhat alarming. They say that by the
middle of this century, computers may surpass human intelligence. In a sense,
they already do, and speed-wise, well, we all know the answer to that. Are we
looking at a "Terminator" self-fulfilled prophecy? Time will
tell. Even some
scientific deep thinkers are now saying that we are allowing our technology to
get ahead of our minds and hearts...and that is a bit scary.

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