January 27, 2007
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Nanotechnology and Other Trends of the Future
I have dreamt (drumpt? dreambled?) of a world where a single injection of microscopic robots into one's face will cure the scourge of acne forever! These robots will rush through the bloodstream and do battle with the bacteria in one's pores, but will by no means increase one's chance of having a stroke as was my fear when I underwent the procedure myself ... perhaps fear is too strong a word--it was more of a slight nagging worry.
I have no doubt my dream was prophetic.
For in my waking moments, I envision a future when acne-fighting robots are the least of the wonders wrought by our technology! I see a world where we can at last to develop a robot so lifelike, so realistic, that it is completely indistinguishable (to even the most trained robotocist's eyes) from an actual robot...It shall be named "The RoboBot!" Such a keenly disguised machine could be programmed to easily infiltrate an enemy robot army or perhaps a group of unsuspecting androids made to look like humans. But this view of the future comes to me only dimly, I must adjust the reception ... Perhaps what I really see is a future where technology has gone amok: uncannily human-like androids bent on exterminating the human race have taken over the planet, and the only way to save humanity is for a hero to disguise himself like an "old-school" robot janitor and travel around incognito, patiently and secretly ambushing and reprogramming the androids one by one, until he has the critical mass needed to ignite a counter-revolution. Not a RoboBot, but a RoboSapien. Once a tech-support guru, he is now the last hope of humankind. But that robot costume gets really itchy sometimes and it's a bummer having no one to talk to or to trust. For alas, all the other humans have been killed ... or have they?
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