{"id":886,"date":"2014-06-06T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T18:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=886"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T18:30:00","slug":"dawn-robot-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/dawn-robot-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dawn of the Robot Revolution is nigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/dawn-robot-revolution\/\" data-text=\"The Dawn of the Robot Revolution is nigh\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>When I read the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/7d398f90-ec8e-11e3-8963-00144feabdc0.html#slide0\" target=\"_blank\">The Dawn of a Robot Revolution as Army of Machines Escape the \u00a0Factory<\/a>, I confess that \u00a0my imagination took me back in time to this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_887\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/dawn-robot-revolution\/magnus-02\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-887\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-887\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Magnus.02-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"That's me.  No, not the robot.  The robot karate dude\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Magnus.02-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Magnus.02-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Magnus.02.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#8217;s me. No, not the robot. The robot karate dude<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I imagined hordes of malevolent robots escaping their factories, bent on revenge and mayhem against their creator-oppressors. \u00a0But in reading the story, it turns out that the revolution is in how and where robotics are used instead of human labor. \u00a0A more accurate headline might have been something like &#8220;Increasing number of benign machines make cost effective replacement of human labor with robotics more commonplace outside of traditional industrial factory settings&#8221;. \u00a0However&#8230;that loses a little of it&#8217;s ooomph&#8230;the revised headline could possibly be used to sedate a large animal. \u00a0How about you? \u00a0Still awake? \u00a0Good.<\/p>\n<p>As I like to say, just because I&#8217;m paranoid doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t out to get me. \u00a0And so the robot conspiracy may yet be underway regardless. \u00a0I have heard that robots are a patient lot. \u00a0I&#8217;d keep an eye on that Automatic Cow Milking Machine if I were you.<\/p>\n<p>Oh..and since it&#8217;s Music Friday:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQi-OSXznrY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet When I read the headline The Dawn of a Robot Revolution as Army of Machines Escape the \u00a0Factory, I confess that \u00a0my imagination took me back in time to this: &nbsp; I imagined hordes of malevolent robots escaping their factories, bent on revenge and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}