Coding In The Darkness

Was reading this article on the BBC Technology pages today – Robot To Create Facebook Page i may actually ask to be his friend, just to see what he is getting up to, what his status updates code be (“1000101 101001010 101001010100 100101″, “having a recharge”, “Why is it only female robots get multi core processors?”), will he speak to me on Facebook chat, invite me to join him on some apps or maybe he’s really passionate about his carbon footprint and has made a group that i can join.

First Robot to get Facebook profile

But it just got me thinking about what role robots will play in the future?

Me and @ShaunMarshal have had a few conversations which must seem ridiculous to passers by about;

• what robots will be doing for us in the future
• how long until we are living and interacting with robots on a daily basis
• how long before they overthrow the us and destroy the human race!

Even writing now it sounds crazy but as technology gets increasingly powerful and smaller how long is it until we enter an iRobot type world?
Thinking back to articles I’ve read and videos I’ve seen they have robots that look like humans, act like humans and learn like humans. Now add that to the fact that there are plenty of Hollywood movies where robots end up in charge and go on some murderous rampage.
What you get is a human like creature that learns how to take over the world with their legions of robot allies.

How long before we are all terminated?

Again it may sound like crazy, paranoid ramblings of a mad man but for those of you who have a similar instinct to me i urge you to watch The Terminator 1 – 3, A.I., iRobot, Transformers, RoboCop, Universal Soldier and that one where the robot guy is driving a yellow taxi, so we can anticipate any form of attack!

I shall be keeping a firm eye on this whole robot up-rise, i just urge you that global warming may be threatening are world over the next 100 years, but the dawn of a robot age could be soon upon us!

Update!: Now Japan has developed Worlds first robot teacher! > Actually quite funny looking at the pictures, is very freaky, but where will this lead us, teaching is a well paid job, will robots be the future of teaching?

Well I downloaded the Wordpress app for the iPhone and am giving it a quick spin.
So far I’m impressed with the speed and the interface isn’t to bad either but will I really be bloging from my iPhone enough for this app to keep it’s place on my phone?

Well I can see the advantages, being able to blog anywhere as long as you have some form of connection is cool, if you need to type something that’s on your mind for later even better. But how practical is it?

Well I have just tried the horizontal keyboard which speeds up my typing, i’ve added all of my tags in pain free and even the iPhone’s built-in spell checker is very handy while a type! I’m gonna try some pictures next if that’s possible and maybe a web link just to really push it but I’m guessing you can’t switch between HTML and visual like normal, but again I could add images, links and videos later. (Added some of me and Ronnie at the park and pic of the app loading lame I know)

Well I can see this being a handy app to start my post on a train and then finish once I get home if the app will work without connction I don’t yet know, anyway, time will tell how many iPhone posts I make but I’ll add iPhone blog in the catorgrie section for each one I do make.

So all thats left is,

Stay class mobile blogging world.