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Monday, November 14, 2011

Tech Google's Dream Lab Will Make Shut-Ins of Us All

Posted by Cienna Madrid on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM

Driverless cars manufactured in the US, robots that commute to work for you... these are a some of the inventions secret Google scientists are working on.

Via the NY Times:

In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed Bay Area location where robots run free, the future is being imagined.

It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. Your robot could go to the office while you stay home in your pajamas. And you could, perhaps, take an elevator to outer space.

These fantasies sound dreamy—especially on a Monday morning. They also seem impossibly lonely.

 

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Space elevator, please.
Posted by Marq on November 14, 2011 at 12:59 PM · Report
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@Marg -- the space junk kept cutting the Kevlar line.

First they need to get the Space-Wall-E to clean up the intersecting orbits .
Posted by Rosy on November 14, 2011 at 1:21 PM · Report
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The space elevator....I hope it's one-way.
Posted by Wubbles on November 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM · Report
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If that jar of moldy jam in my refrigerator gets on the Internet, I can't be responsible for what might happen.
Posted by Todd Mecklem on November 14, 2011 at 3:24 PM · Report

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