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From the Ted Talk by Rodney Brooks: Robots will invade our lives
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What I want to tell you about today is how I see robots inidvnag our lives at mtiplule levels, over multiple timescales. And when I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have rbotos everywhere. auimssng — despite all the dire predictions from many people about our future — assuming we're still around, I can't imagine the world not being populated with robots. And then the qsuioetn is, well, if they're going to be here in 500 years, are they going to be everywhere sooner than that? Are they going to be around in 50 years? Yeah, I think that's pretty likely — there's going to be lots of robots everywhere. And in fact I think that's going to be a lot sooner than that. I think we're sort of on the cusp of robots becoming common, and I think we're sort of around 1978 or 1980 in personal computer years, where the first few robots are starting to appear.
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What I want to tell you about today is how I see robots ________ our lives at ________ levels, over multiple timescales. And when I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have ______ everywhere. ________ — despite all the dire predictions from many people about our future — assuming we're still around, I can't imagine the world not being populated with robots. And then the ________ is, well, if they're going to be here in 500 years, are they going to be everywhere sooner than that? Are they going to be around in 50 years? Yeah, I think that's pretty likely — there's going to be lots of robots everywhere. And in fact I think that's going to be a lot sooner than that. I think we're sort of on the cusp of robots becoming common, and I think we're sort of around 1978 or 1980 in personal computer years, where the first few robots are starting to appear.
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What I want to tell you about today is how I see robots invading our lives at multiple levels, over multiple timescales. And when I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere. Assuming — despite all the dire predictions from many people about our future — assuming we're still around, I can't imagine the world not being populated with robots. And then the question is, well, if they're going to be here in 500 years, are they going to be everywhere sooner than that? Are they going to be around in 50 years? Yeah, I think that's pretty likely — there's going to be lots of robots everywhere. And in fact I think that's going to be a lot sooner than that. I think we're sort of on the cusp of robots becoming common, and I think we're sort of around 1978 or 1980 in personal computer years, where the first few robots are starting to appear.
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