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    i, for one, fear our new robot overlords

    The iRobot marketing assault at eTech was the scariest conference keynote ever. Props to Burtonator for asking the ethics question. (thanks to g10 for locating the original strip used in the presentation, in which the original dialogue had been replaced by some roomba propaganda) Update: ha, I guess I'm a tree hugging hacker.

    Posted on 2004.02.10 at 07:52 PM in Thoughts |

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    Sean

    agreed. But I still really want a roomba (floor-cleaning vacuum robot).

    Posted by: Sean | 2004.02.21 at 11:58 PM

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