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Week 4. Robots and Androids
Today the professor visits Alpha's new cafE and meets a robot called XJ7Z. let's take a look
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Hi, there you are again! Listen, I'm going to meet Alpha and my robo-friend XJ7Z in Alpha's new cafe. Let's see how everybody is doing!
Yeah, I was lucky to find this spot. but I miss my old cafe.
Hi, Alpha! I love what you've done with the new cafe, it's so comfortable!
Today the professor visits Alpha's new cafe
and meets a robot called XJ7Z.
Here's their conversation.
and meets a robot called XJ7Z.
Here's their conversation.
Was it washed away completely?
Is the town flooded, have you been there?
Not quite yet, there's still one wall in the sand. I go there sometimes to watch the sunset.
Yes. I like how the lights light up after dark. It reminds me of the ghost of the XXI century.
We were all worried about economy, development, jobs...
«ut it doesn't matter, it's all washed away. We were worried that robots were going to come and make us obsolete. Do you even have a job now?
«ut it doesn't matter, it's all washed away. We were worried that robots were going to come and make us obsolete. Do you even have a job now?
I run the cafe, but some-times it seems to me that I drink myself 80% of the coffee.
Exactly! I don't have a job either.
I grow some food and some coffee. The rest of the time I take care of who-ever I can take care of. Robot or human — it doesn't matter.
I grow some food and some coffee. The rest of the time I take care of who-ever I can take care of. Robot or human — it doesn't matter.
Hello, XJ7Z! How's it going, man?
Would you like some coffee?
XJ7Z, hi!
Yes, please. I do not drink coffee, but I like the smell.
It doesn't matter. We are all just people now, get-ting by the best we can.
That's true.
We were talking about the old days: jobs, humans versus robots.
When was the last time you went searching through the ruins for a liter of heavy grease?
But sometimes we have different requirements.
XJ, have you been to the Nanotown yet?
Yes, I've been going there almost every sunset. I'm writing a poem about lost soggy bots. Maybe a song.
It was written in 2016.
It describes the multi-meter sea level rise that occurred in that century.
It describes the multi-meter sea level rise that occurred in that century.
I've been reading this article called "Cassandra" by James Hansen, a climate change scientist.
Human logic is beyond my simple circuits.
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
It was written two years before they built Nana-town's robotic district. What were they thinking?
I love my cafe because I met so many different people!
I want to understand what they feel and how they think.
I want to understand what they feel and how they think.
If you knew you were already living in the ruins, what would you change in your life? Who and what do you need
to care for? Who and what cares for you?
to care for? Who and what cares for you?
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 16, no. 6 (2016): 3761-3812
Hansen, James, Makiko Sato, Paul Hearty, Reto Ruedy, Maxwell Kelley, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Gary Russell et al. "Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2°C global warming could be dangerous"
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