Monday, December 15, 2008

Japan: robot nation

http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/japan_robot_nation_12085.asp

http://current.com/items/89610631/japan_robot_nation.htm




Japan, the world's second largest economy, is facing a demographic crisis that will shrink the population dramatically. The Japanese aren't having babies, and the country won't accept immigrants to help bolster the population. But Japan may have a unique solution --- Robots!


This article let me think of "I-Robot." Our world could be replaced by machines one day. The population is getting lower and lower, and the senior people are more and more. Is it a crisis to human being?

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