'Black Mirror' Robot Dogs To Patrol U.S. Border

[Uncle Joe]

[George II]

1. Excellent idea!

[chia]

2. These robot dogs are some of the most creepy, dystopian harbingers of the future I can think of.

Yes, I saw the Black Mirror episode, too. It's called Metalhead, if anyone wants to check it out.

[Uncle Joe]

5. The great proposition long touted and realized about robotics/invention

are the major improvements in productivity.

If the people benefitted from this great, but way too many are being left behind, so as a relative handful of owners can make out like mega bandits.

That has been the case for decades, productivity has gone up but wages have for the vast majority have remained stagnant.

I see no reason as to why automizing ever increasing amounts of our societal obligations in regards to security to be any different.

Ultimately the oligarchs will control this as well if they don't already and life will become ever cheaper as a result.

[Tommy Carcetti]

9. Metalhead and White Bear were the most terrifying episodes in Black Mirror.

And there were quite a few disturbing, if not outright terrifying, episodes of that show.

[chia]

13. I haven't seen the newer episodes, but so far, I agree with you on those two.

On the other hand, I really enjoyed San Junipero.

[Tommy Carcetti]

14. The newer episodes are not quite as dark.

At least in the final season.

San Junipero is a fan favorite, probably because it was the first to have a "happy" ending as opposed to a depressing one.

[chia]

16. Oh, interesting, okay. I'll have to watch them one of these days. I guess San Junipero was respite

care for those damaged by the darker episodes.

[dameatball]

3. This seems like a dry run for other missions, including apprehension, combat, etc. Simple

patrolling and observation can be done more cheaply by drones I would think.
$........product developement
$........maintenance
$........monitoring
All this adds up

[Uncle Joe]

6. I agree. I also believe

this will be the equivalent of a Sopwith Camel in regards to fighter jets.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

11. Good analogy.

The surface has barely been scratched.

[Auggie]

4. Graft from the administration of TFG

[poli-junkie]

7. I'm just picturing wrapping wire around its legs

a la that scene in Star Wars until it topples over. Or just throwing a heavy blanket over the thing and watch it freak out.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Well check out a little more extensive footage on this video around the 2:10 mark

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017710982

[poli-junkie]

10. Woah -- it takes a kicking and can right itself.

Bet you can still throw a blanket on it and hog-tie it with heavy wire.

[Uncle Joe]

12. It's just beginning

as I stated on another post, this is the equivalent of a Sopwith Camel in regards to fighter jets.

It won't be that long before these things can do the hog tying.

[poli-junkie]

15. Yep, just like the Terminator movies.

[Uncle Joe]

18. I don't know that our future holds something exactly along those lines or not but I do believe

as we turn ever increasing amounts of war making over to "sanitary" automation, while our humanity is ever more disconnected from the act, we become more like them.

[Auggie]

19. Yeah, but that looked like a nudge, not a kick

[dameatball]

17. This "dog" is exactly how I imagined the critters in the Nick Petrie novel "The Breaker" looked.

The Peter Ash series is pretty good if there are any fiction fans here that are unfamiliar with it.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

20. Thats awful

Some fascist invented them. What purpose these so called dogs? Induce fear, record or watch ,dominate and abuse people.

Just wait until a tyrant has hundreds or hundreds of thousands sniper rifle armed "dogs" roaming streets..

Fascists wet dream.

I hate fascism. I hate sociopaths and narcissists. They the only kind of people that would find things like this "Cool"lets make some.