Here's Daniel's latest story, published today by Metromote, about some robotics programs for kids in the area to get them into robotics and technology, largely funded by the military. Really interesting from a technological and a human perspective.
The Next Generation in Invention
3 comments:
Great article.
The Funny -
First, top of the page had a picture of Daniel as a kid.
Second, you "shushed" a girl while doing an interview. That's totally something Dan would do.
The scary -
"Theisen considers TARDEC's involvement in Robofest to be part of a comprehensive package in which kids are introduced at an early age to Army-sponsored robotics competitions. "You get the kids interested in that through Robofest and then hopefully they keep moving up to the [Michigan] FIRST Competition in high school, the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition in the University, and then they'll go work in a career in robotics," he says."
and then...
On the dangers of robotizing our armies, Dr. Chung is agnostic. "To tell you the truth, we haven't officially discussed these ethical issues," he says. Dr. Chung sees robotics itself as a tool like any other, subject to the moral choices of its wielder. "Robotics are neutral," he says. "They can be used for good or evil. The solution is for the people using that technology to have a good ethical background, a good conscience. Something missing in our education system is the promotion of an ethical mindset."
And finally...
Bozin says that war has its advantages, particularly when it comes to technological progress. "War provides necessity and necessity provides invention," he says. "Plus, war drives funding. So we get great advancements out of war."
Again, I love the way you write. This article was a little unnerving. Great job.
Daniel,
I read some of your article but it was so over my head that I felt lost. You are a good writer though.
Well, Grandma. Thanks for trying...
On the one hand, my goal is to write in a way that wouldn't feel like taking medicine to read. So this is a negative review...
On the other, maybe you're just going senile. Or worse, maybe you're secretly supportive of the rampant militarization of our educational system...
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