Robots On Facebook
Filed under: Androids, Anti-Android Research & Development Team, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Robot Psychology, Robots, Robots Deserve Rights 2, Science Fiction, Social Media, Technology, The Future
A major breakthrough in human/robot relationships arrives as Facebook allows one of its first robot members. Read more here.
Robot twitterati could be next.
Social media users worry they will not be able to discern between their “human” and “robot” friends. Jackie Topovowitz from the organization Anti-Android Research & Development Team (AARDT) said, “We cannot blur the line any more between man and machine. The simple fact is, robots should be taught to be subservient to humans. Allowing them to interact with people on social networks puts us on equal footing, and we cannot let that happen.”
Members of the group Robots Deserve Rights 2, (RDR2), say the comments made be AARDT are robo-racist. Jeffrey Gottchalk said, “we welcome robots to online social networks with open arms. This is a positive step forward in robot rights.”
What do you think? Do robots have a fundamental right to social media?
2012 Prediction: Apocalypse Caused By Slow Internet
Filed under: Alien Intelligence, Aliens, Computers, Psychology, Science, Science Fiction, Social Media, Technology, The Apocalypse, The Future
Are we running out of internet? This report suggests this could be the case.
As we continue to wonder what might cause the 2012 apocalypse infamously predicted by the Mayans, this report has caused a stir because of the following quote from the article in the Times Online: “From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an ‘unreliable toy’”.
Could a frustratingly slow internet cause the infamous 2012 apocalypse? This is a possibility according to an internet researcher who wishes to remain nameless. The reseacher said, “We’ve become so dependent on the internet that a reduction in its performance could lead to global chaos. Banking systems, transportation, utility grids could all come crashing down. I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all to think the ensuing mayhem could snowball into the end of the world.”
While these points are relevant to this theory, psychologist Dr. Eddie Eddington Jr. says he is more concerned about the psychological damage a slow and evaporating internet would have on the world.
Dr. Eddington said the following when reached for comment: “The instant gratification we’ve become used to with the internet and the immediacy with which we can connect to a world of information has made us extremely ADD. Take for instance the Twitter phenomena. Our attention spans and patience are dwindling at exponential rates. If reports that the internet will start slowing to a sudden halt around 2012 are true, then we could very well see our collective psychology short circuit. The results of such a short circuit could be widespread insanity, which would snowball into chaos, riots, and general anarchy. It very well could trigger a sort of ‘social apocalypse’. Perhaps this is what the Mayans predicted.”
What do you think? Could a slow internet in 2012 be the spark that lights the fire of an apocalypse?
Dangers of the Twitter Hive Mind
Filed under: Computers, Conspiracies, Corporations, Government, Human Intelligence, Science, Science Fiction, Social Media, Technology
Post submitted by anonymous investigator. Views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of The Loki Times.
Twitter, tweets, and tweetbacks. Harmless sounding words we hear more and more as the popularity of the social networking and micro-blogging service grows at an exponential rate. But the explosive growth of Twitter has left us little time step back to analyze the threat it poses to mankind. A new ‘Big Brother’ is growing right in front of our eyes. It is the all knowing Twitter hive mind.
The Twitter hive mind feeds on our thoughts, personalities, moods, and ideas. Everytime someone tweets, a snippet of information is sent to a growing pool of data. This data pool reflects a large part of mankind’s collective consciousness. While the everyday Twitter user might not care, large corporations and governments do. They can analyze this data to learn more about the people they seek to control.
Lying in the superficially inane flow of Tweets are patterns of thought which groups like the Illuminati can use to manipulate the minds of citizens. Right now, researchers are developing sensors that can be paired with Twitter in order to deliver a constant stream of information regarding everything from your heart rate to mood (read here).
And we can’t ignore studies showing that Twitter could be destroying our capacity for emotion and empathy (read here). The thought is that the constant data-stream sent through a service like Twitter is shortening our attention spans and preventing reflection on what we’re reading, therefore reducing our ability to feel emotion. This all snowballs into a sort of brainwashing in which we become little more than living conduits of information. This brainwashing effect only further serves the purposes of those who will learn how to use Twitter for their own nefarious ends.
So the next time you hear someone Tweet, “I just ate a bagel for breakfast”, or “On my way to work”, remember that those simple words could be contributing to the downfall of mankind.
Twitter – Dangerous or Harmless. What do you think?