Ode to the Uncanny Valley

Thanks to IEEE Spectrum

Raytheon Sends Androids to the Battlefield

Forbes is running an article on the deployment of a Google Android device for battlefield use.

From the description it sounds like they've perverted the social networking features of the new smartphone OS and turned it into a kind of Google Latitude for war. Now, your buddy list can include all your attack drones! Yay!

Next up: Drones form a buddy clique and start using missles to poke their old friends on Facebook.

Japan's Robot Infiltration Grows

While addressing the prefectural assembly members of the Liberal Democratic Party in Matsue Health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa called Japan's women "birth-giving machines."

"The number of women aged between 15 and 50 is fixed. Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head, although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines."

This is not a suprising slip by the ever increasing population of androids among Japan's ruling elite. I can only speculate that they have been emboldened by their representative achieving status as prime minister.

This does however tip us off to a potential plan. Perhaps they intend to depopulate the country, and when the human birth-giving machines get desparate for offspring they will come along with new "fertility" devices that transform the female populace into Axolotl tanks.

Source The Japan Times via Boing Boing