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You seem to have cut off the quote right before the shoot-for-the-stars ideas begin: "... Your robot could go to the office while you stay home in your pajamas
by brown9-2 15y ago
You seem to have cut off the quote right before the shoot-for-the-stars ideas begin:
"... Your robot could go to the office while you stay home in your pajamas. And you could, perhaps, take an elevator to outer space."
- munin 15y agoa telepresence robot you say? looks like they've been scooped by bell labs: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/278794,bell-labs-builds-telepresence-robots.aspx http://www.itnews.com.au/News/278794,bell-labs-builds-telepr... (among MANY others)
- brown9-2 15y agoPerhaps these latter ideas are simply large/hard problems, not "ideas so strange no one has even ever considered them before". However, if you were a hush-hush R&D lab investigating some ideas that were so far out there no one has ever heard of them, would you really tell them to the NYT so they can include them in their profile of your lab? I doubt it.