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I love technology and progress but this is just sad IMHO: "People could use them to go on remote vacations, he said, touring the streets of a faraway country or
by antirez 16y ago
I love technology and progress but this is just sad IMHO: "People could use them to go on remote vacations, he said, touring the streets of a faraway country or interacting with the locals without ever leaving their bedrooms."
- Ardit20 16y agoIt wouldn't replace tourism though same as seeing someone on video does not quite replace seeing them in person. Frankly, we do not know what they could be used for. Personally, I would not mind being able when I have some free time to have this robot wondering around the pyramids of Egypt for me or Shanghai see how ordinary people live, or preview for example some place I want to go to etc.
- halostatue 16y agoI concur, but one of the things that this could be useful for is touring places that are too "dangerous" (to the places) for a full-weight human to tour. But a tele tour of Italy would not have been as good as the tour of Italy I took earlier this month.
- njharman 16y agoPeople say/have said same thing about internet, social networks, cellphones, video games, TV, original rotary phones. About any and every method of communication/interaction that was different enough from the forms of communication/interaction they were accustomed to, comfortable with. You say people using this to go on remote vacations is sad. I say it's awesome for all the travel phobia's, handicapped, poor, etc. New things are additive, not subtractive. Nothing in this is stopping people from taking taking physical vacations (other than guilt over the amount of pollution air travel causes) it's enabling people to do something they couldn't before.