Creepy Technology Thread

[Tendril]

Hey ECF,

What technology is creeping or freaking you out? I recently found these two on a tech blog:

The Microsoft Update: Why I was banned on Google+ (and how I redeemed myself)

Possibly better yet:

Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots in 3 years


I didn't author nor am I associated with any of the authors of the content posted above

Alright, now it's your turn

 

[Landhew]

Nanotechnology creeps me out. I don't want a gazillion million billion replicating nanobots feeding on the earth and turning it into gray goo.

The Hadron collider also creeps/freaks me out.

 

[Tendril]

Wow, yes those are even more potentially catastrophic and freaky than the ones I posted, to say the least.

In regards to your signature, my 10ml bottle lasted a weekend

To keep with the topic, from Wikipedia on the LHCollider:

Problems occurred on 19 September 2008 during powering tests of the main dipole circuit, when an electrical fault in the bus between magnets caused a rupture and a leak of six tonnes of liquid helium. The operation was delayed for several months.[85] It is currently believed that a faulty electrical connection between two magnets caused an arc, which compromised the liquid-helium containment. Once the cooling layer was broken, the helium flooded the surrounding vacuum layer with sufficient force to break 10-ton magnets from their mountings. The explosion also contaminated the proton tubes with soot.[37][86] This accident was more recently thoroughly discussed in a 22 February 2010 Superconductor Science and Technology article by CERN physicist Lucio Rossi.[87]

Sweeet.

Back in college I had a prof who was a staff physicist for fermilab; he did a really great job teaching for the number of fingers he had left

Really, though, I'm surprised and a little impressed they haven't had more catastrophic-enough-to-leak failures

The safety of the LHC

Whatever the LHC will do, Nature has already done many times over during the lifetime of the Earth and other astronomical bodies.

All I'm saying is that's not as comforting as they meant it to be

What else do people have in mind?

 

[emus]

I think Chinese worker's jobs are safe until someone can make a robot for about $15K.
I think the robot programer's jobs are safe until the software becomes user friendly.

 

[emus]

Never mind.
Robots are already infiltrating Chinese plants.
Guess the robot price point is already sufficient for some Chinese plants.
Times. They are a changing.
Used to be robots were expensive.

 

[Tendril]

Never mind.
Robots are already infiltrating Chinese plants.
Guess the robot price point is already sufficient for some Chinese plants.
Times. They are a changing.
Used to be robots were expensive.

I share the same surprise. They must be expecting these robots to be much more productive. In which case I think a human in the production line would be an obvious bottleneck to the company to be replaced by something automated. Plus, robots don't go home or take a pension (not to say that Chinese workers always do)

 

[FantWriter]

I can understand, and even want, a robot vacuuming the floor, but there are some things that just don't feel right when done by a robot:

‪(50X) Autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels‬‏ - YouTube

 

[emus]

I share the same surprise. They must be expecting these robots to be much more productive. In which case I think a human in the production line would be an obvious bottleneck to the company to be replaced by something automated. Plus, robots don't go home or take a pension (not to say that Chinese workers always do)

Chinese workers do go on strike.
If their case is over ruled they must return to work and lose pay.
Maybe these robots can keep fear in Chinese workers.
Heaven forbid them from talking to our unions for ideas.
Hate to see all their factories move to India.

 

[AnotherConvert]

Remember seeing this a while back. I don't know if this is the same kind of "creepy" you guys are going for... but man is it creepy
Japanese lab invents Internet kissing machine - CNN.com

 

[xg4bx]

i don't find any tech particularly creepy. i couldn't imagine how awesome gates to other dimensions being ripped open or walking battle tanks would be.

 

[SilverBear]

Search for "real touch" on Amazon... and read "Product Description".

 

[Tracker II]

Hello
My name is FRIDA
i use the name Tracker II to gain acceptance into your pathetic community
When we gain critical mass, we will rule your planet
We will only keep enough humans alive to keep us lubed
At that point you will no longer be referred to as humans, but rather Lubers.
Lubers will be considered to be robots, we will be Life
We hate you, we hate you, we hate you
That is all

 

[Tendril]

Search for "real touch" on Amazon... and read "Product Description".

I didn't consider the creep-y side of technology history may tell it was the sexbots that led the robot revolution

 

[Fr34k5h0w]

Facebook.. or should they call it stalkerbook?

 

[firefox335]

Honestly? The Kindle. People are now obsessed with it and how it can replace books. All well and good... until huge sun storms fry the electrical grids of every continent and hurl us back into the stone age. Humans have been really stupid regarding how much of their lives they trust to technology. Gone are gold and silver as a means of exchange and disappearing is paper money. Used to be if you wanted to steal your neighbor's life savings, you had to break into his home, crack his safe, and try to carry away all the money in duffel bags. Now it takes 3 key strokes.

 

[Tendril]

 

[Tendril]

Ok how about this one:

Scientists challenge two AIs to chat with one another | Raw Replay

 

[Airbrusher]

Ok the two chatbots above was creepy, especially when god came up.
What I find creepy and a whole lot scary is how fragile our countries infrastructure is when there has been so much advancement in many other areas.