Time Travel has been perfected.

Would You Connect?

Would you connect yourself to a robot?  Imagine that you are still you, but you have a connection to robot.  Whatever you think goes into its brain and whatever it thinks goes into yours.  The possibilities are endless, you could just think that you need a drink and it would bring the drink to you.  You could just think about sending someone a message and it would do it for you.  Would you do this if you could?

'Robot trousers' give paraplegics power to walk

The Obedient Wisdom

I, Singularitarian

Posted by neocount on December 15, 2009

Heh, heh, I’m feeling particularly proud of the title of this post (but I’m probably one amongst thousands who had this clever little idea), sorry, I digress, ok, seriously, I decided to write something on the subject of Singularity because, well, it’s been a while and I enjoy writing about this.

I first fell upon this strange an enticing subject matter right here … In the faculty archives of the Department of Computer Science at San Diego State University. What was I doing there? Well, browsing of course, just looking for something interesting to read. Way back then, the Internet was quite a different creature…

And like probably thousands of other people, my first reaction was, “NASA knows about this? Holy cow!”

I used my fancy brand new state of the art ‘Ink Jet’ printer, printed out this incredible, incredible, piece of… revelation?.. and spent the next five hours, like a 13 year old boy with a new porno mag (I’m a girl by the way, I’m plugging in a simile here!), in bed, under my covers, reading the thing over and over again (back then, reading on a monitor was not the norm, plus you paid per minute to use the Internet, so you printed out lots of ‘pages’ otherwise your parents killed you!).

It made so much sense to me! It felt so right! I was younger back then, and much more impressionable, but to this day I’m happy at the gut feeling Vernor Vinge’s words generated, they brought me to this point in time. A quantum symmetry was broken when I found that text on the ‘Internet’. A path through time had been established that literally brought me from that moment in time to this one. With every seemingly random act from that prime instant, that teenaged Jamie Maxwell turned into me. And what a cool ride it’s been so far.

However, I have do admit that I’m very disappointed that more people don’t write about it; don’t incorporate the math into their fiction. Not really the Singularity (Poof! The digital messiah is here, yey, we’re saved! Or are we…?) per se, but the doubly exponentially increasing power and influence of technology. I get annoyed at little sci-fi things like… It’s the year 2250. Why are there still streetlights outside?

Now doesn't this look like a neural net to you? The more light, the more neural activity. Clusters of minds needing light to function at night...

The math indicates that Nanotech (or any other type of tech) dealing with visual perception will become advanced enough and cheap enough… or, on the other side of the quadrant, epigenetic manipulation through the use of cloud-controlled nanotech will become so advanced… That seeing in the dark will have become a non-issue long before 2250. (How silly is it to use 1/15 of all the world’s energy, every day, to simply light the United States at night?)

We’ll either activate some dormant gene from way back when… or we’ll make one… or the tech will do the work… But whatever happens, sooner or later, electric streetlights will go the way of torches and oil lamps. Through necessity, we modify the environment with technology, in response, the environment modifies us behaviorally, genetically, and psychologically: we become the singularity daily because we change our natural environment. Exponentially so over the last 20-30 years. So yeah, I like the ‘Next logical evolutionary step’ theory. Plus, we have an evolutionary imperative to tend towards Singularity: If we don’t, we’ll either destroy ourselves or our environment, both ways we follow the laws of natural selection: Adapt or Die.

The Obedient Christmas

Merry Christmas. The Obedient Robot hopes you have a classic one.

Robot Dancein with Lighting - The best home videos are here

The Obedient Blob

Blobs will be obedient some day. What will this mean for being able to find robots that can change color and shape?

The Obedient DJ

The Obedient Robot loves music. Also dancing. You should see me do the robot.
Check out blip.fm to see what all the robots out there are getting all excited and beepy about.

Obedient Fun

Mute the video and press play then click the play button on the music link below. Enjoy.

The Obedient Party

The Obedient Robot loves to dance. Some people think that robots don't like to party. This is a taste of what robots listen to when you are not around.

Obedient Entertainment

The Obedient Robot would like for you to adopt more robots. There should be at least four in every home. Think of how much better this would be for you than watching TV.

Robotic Backscratcher

Robots don't always look human. I know many humans that would love an obedient robot like this to scratch their backs and give the massages. Enjoy.


If you are curious about the actual purpose of this beauty click here.

Some of My Friends

Meet some of my obedient friends. Some day you may be lucky to meet them.

Welcome to my blog from Twitter

The Obedient Robot welcomes you from Twitter. Get to know me and relax yourself here. No more wandering aimlessly robot.

The Obedient Sunburn

This is a child's accurate depiction of what would happen if a human and a robot were stranded on an island together.  The human would get no nutritional value from eating the robot and the robot doesn't know hunger.  This is all very true and accurate.  Smart kid.  

What is also accurate is the hand holding and skeletonization that is just inevitable without rescue.  The Obedient Robot would hang in there with its human friend til the end.  The only inaccuracy is the robot's comical sunburn.  What a kidder.

The Obedient Future

This is the kind of stuff that makes you smarter.  The Future wants you to watch it.

The Obedient Depression

The Obedient Robot thinks that with all of the time people have now that they have been laid off, that many robots can be built.  There are a lot of smart people at home walking around in their boxer shorts at 1:30 in the afternoon.  Surely some of them can get together and start building some kick ass robots for good.

How Obedient are you?

The Obedient Robot found this and thought it was worthy of your attention.

If the technology existed, how far would you be willing to go in the pursuit of transhumanism?


1. Nowhere: I would not accept any technology or other assistance into my body, including medical appliances like pacemakers to save my life.

2. Where I am right now: I would accept technologies that would help me to function normally. No drastic measures though.

3. Beyond normal, merging of body: I would accept technologies, nano/machine or genetic, to improve my health to optimal and somewhat beyond, to ensure a healthy life until I die.

4. Merging of body and life extension : I would accept #3, and also allow my body to live healthfully indefinitely (aka, until an accident inevitably kills me, or I get tired of living) at an age of my choice

5. Merging of body and mind: I would link my thinking capacity to technologies, genetic or mechanic, which would intensely increase my cognitive abilities, to the point of being able to multitask managing multiple complex tasks, to hold vast amounts of information and models to be called at will, to be able to reason with unthinkable speed and depth, etc

6. Beyond merging: I would not mind totally leaving human genetics behind, and modifying myself every day with new advances in technology, up to and including having powers which mythologies once attributed to the gods.

7. Beyond material existence: I would accept a total transformation. For example, I would consent to becoming part of a computer program, if it would mean I would become immortal.

Obedient Tweet

The Obedient Robot has discovered Twitter and thinks that this will lead robots and people into perpetual conversation. You will check it out eventually.

The Obedient President

Is is just me, or does it seem like our new president is on The Truman Show? There should be one channel on him all day. It seems pretty close to this already. How many bathroom breaks does he take before noon?

The Obedient Zeitgeist

The Obedient Robot takes a look at the Top Ten Google searches right this moment.


fleet foxes - This is a band that is will be performing on SNL soon. Lots of little robots must be excited.

houston marathon - a race that robots run or wheel in

portfolio diet - some robots have high cholesterol and this diet is supposed to lower it.

gundam 00 season 2 episode 15 - Victory Song

arsenic and old lace - A play that for some reason is getting a lot of attention right now.

deathbed the bed that eats people - Movie from 1977 This is no ordinary bed. No sirree Bob! Not only does it eat people, but it cleans up ...

grits - South Carolina declared grits its state food in 1973

dick cavett - The Dick Cavett Show aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on public television from 1977 to 1982

yulia tymoshenko - former prime minister of Ukraine.

patella - The patella, also known as the knee cap or kneepan

This is what robots care about right now.