Lots of science fiction has been written about this scenario, which is of course possible. Your are being a "futurist". The Japanese are very much into robot technology as demonstrated by Asimo and Aibo. As human population ages, robots may become useful not only as helpers and servants but for personal companionship. Medical robots are an interesting possibility, melding huge database of medical knowledge with robotics, but I see that in a distant future since manual dexterity of a skilled pair of hands is difficult to replicate. Robotic soldiers is another interesting scenario. How do robots recognize good guys from the enemy is an interesting question. Robots may be better at weapons of mass indiscriminate destruction and genocide rather than as a surgical weapon. Then there is the question of "why robots?" Why not create a "race" of clones to meet these purposes, as in the movie "Blade Runners". You have people cloned to fight, people cloned to give pleasure, people cloned to serve. Interesting topics to test our morals.
While you are testing your skills as a futurist, consider that advancement in technology is the the only factor that will influence the way people life in the 22nd century and beyond. Also factor in that over-population usually ends with pandemic diseases that wipes out a large percentage of the population. Medical science, of course, is attempting to stem this fate, but the constant escalation between germ evolution and medical science, puts human-kind under constant treat.
How about global warming? How will the people live in the next century with huge envirnomental pressures. If global drought dictates that agriculture can only sustain a fraction of the current population, what is going to happen. Or what happens if most of coastal lands, where a majority of the world's population now live, becomes flooded by rising sea levels. There is going to be increasing competition for land.
I just hope our social and political evolution can keep up with technological and medical revolution, which has contributed to human over-population, and thus the ecological pressures we put on this planet.
2007-02-02 09:21:31
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answered by Kitiany 5
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We're already there, in a small way. Japan and South Korea are way ahead of everyone else--in factories there are already robots doing things a lot more precisely or under very dangerous conditions, especially in Japan since they had to rebuild most of their factories after World War II. They ttok advantage of the challenge and not only rebuilt but modernized, and not only modernized but mad ethe future in the way I describe. I understand that robotics are now showing up in a number of very public ways in Shanghai and Peking.
I understand that robot maids and baby-sitters have been in use in wealthier Japanese homes for perhaps five years now.
Recently South Korea made an impressive leap by linking a robot by wireless to a more powerful mainframe computer to run it.
On a more ominous note, there are already robot drone planes used by more advanced countries, that can follow a target for hours, too high to be seen. I understand that the U.S. Army is already testing robot drones mounted on hocerafts in forest-typoe combat situations. They move much too quickly to be seen when there is cover like a forest all around them--they can just flash out and shoot and vanish again. That is simply what is available in public knowledge--and keep that everyone, including the U.S. is way, way behind the Japanese.
So, yes, I think that in the future robots will be everywhere. It has already begun in Japan.
2007-02-02 09:05:56
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answered by Zodos 1
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happy you asked! For a human, this technique may well be particularly undemanding, even though it does comprise a hefty cost... enormous discomfort. So, what you do, is you do the sacred dance of the mermaid around a campfire on a Tuesday. then you particularly might desire to recover from to the closest lake and/or river, an ocean works too. it may sense excruciatingly painful, yet a minimum of you have develop right into a MERMAID! (The spell promptly reverses itself once you go away the water) For a WITCH, on the different hand, is particularly greater complicated... on an entire moon, you're able to desire to sacrifice your ultimate witch buddy below a blood moon. Burn your ultimate witch buddy and then dance on her ashes. flow over to a lake, river or ocean and prefer until now, excruciating discomfort, yet you would be a mermaid. (yet for a witch there's a 20% fulfillment cost, so in case you do this and FAIL then you particularly shall develop into Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, and the spell will in no way smash...) (yet for realsies... that is not any longer a real spell... and the reason we don't study a real one, then everybody may well be turning out to be a freaking mermaid >_<)
2016-11-02 03:57:10
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answered by Anonymous
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No,because that would take more than 40 years to develop ,but our environment with a colapsing society and global climate change has only 20 years to live untill we all starve and die off,
2007-02-02 09:12:37
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answered by bernardino 1
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Definately. Humans will become lazy and incompetent as soon as they have robots running our lives. By then, we'll be doomed.
2007-02-02 09:05:36
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answered by CakepMan 2
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No way only in the movies.
2007-02-02 09:05:35
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answered by DLAR 2
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knowing humans, there will be robot prostitutes operating in a rusty den in china before anything else.
2007-02-02 08:59:20
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answered by cowsurfer2 3
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yes
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2007-02-02 08:58:59
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answered by Anonymous
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No I think the world will go BOOM, before then.
2007-02-02 09:00:32
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answered by LuckyChucky 5
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