{"id":2156,"date":"2013-01-22T03:12:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T03:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2013-01-22T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T14:08:10","slug":"the-future-of-2000-robot-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"The future of 2000\u2014Robot Dogs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sony AIBO\u2014The symbol of the future<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/3804561?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=9b0500&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=1\" width=\"520\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>As a child, I remember seeing Sony&#8217;s state of the art robot dog in shopping mall demonstrations and thinking it was the epitome of future technology.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>The future was a place of prettier\u00a0consumer\u00a0products, that emoted freely and replaced problematic institutions such as pets. These were the terms my 10-year-old self thought in. What will I be able to buy in the future? What kind of shopping can we do in a few decades?<\/div>\n<div>The actual significance of the Aibo may have been overlooked by the crowds, who were enchanted with it&#8217;s apparent sophistication and futurism. The $2,000 dog for the family that has everything.<\/div>\n<div>What the designers had in mind is still somewhat mysterious to me. Perhaps Sony wanted a platform of obvious and agressive futurism to make the rest of\u00a0their\u00a0products seem sophisticated by association.<\/div>\n<div>The &#8220;Entertainment Robot&#8221; is a strange concept. When examined in the context of the dog, it implies that organic canines are\u00a0entertainment\u00a0animals. I would think that dog owners see their furry companions as friends and family members more than\u00a0entertainment\u00a0entities. Can a robot, with any degree of verisimilitude, assume the strange and significant role of a pet?<\/div>\n<div>The reading promised a future of such robots by 2025, but I think mankind will resist this notion for a bit longer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The AIBO was discontinued as Sony restructured in 2006. The\u00a0folks\u00a0who run the site, it seems, are upset about this.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyaibo.net\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"BRING BACK AIBO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonyaibo.net\/ims\/save_aibo.gif\" width=\"189\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony AIBO\u2014The symbol of the future As a child, I remember seeing Sony&#8217;s state of the art robot dog in shopping mall demonstrations and thinking it was the epitome of future technology. \u00a0 The future was a place of prettier\u00a0consumer\u00a0products, that emoted freely and replaced problematic institutions such as pets. These were the terms my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47,61,44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[85],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment","category-hardware","category-robotics","category-submission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013spring1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}