Saturday, November 8th, 2008...2:16 pm

Will humans and humanoid robots be indistinguishable on the street 500 years from now?

robots future
.. asked:


Let’s say they looked, acted, and felt the same, could engage in conversations normally, and even affect emotions.

If you lived 500 years in the future and there were robots walking around which were indistinguishable from humans, would it bother you?
I mean tactilely felt the same. I hadn’t considered emotions . .

Eddie

18 Comments to “Will humans and humanoid robots be indistinguishable on the street 500 years from now?”

  1. Rhonda T | November 8th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    Which are you?

  2. george l | November 11th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    no because humans are doomed to failure, too many crazy terrorists and just crazy people.

  3. spockezri | November 11th, 2008 at 5:52 am

    My friends are vulcans and androids am an android.

  4. E K | November 13th, 2008 at 5:01 am

    Probably…..are you……LOL

  5. Joan F | November 16th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    I will let you know if I come back in 500 years time.

  6. Dvdhn | November 18th, 2008 at 3:14 am

    My original copy of dna wouldnt care.

  7. Drizzt | November 18th, 2008 at 5:24 am

    The earth will be in the earth will be in the earth will be in the earth will be in the earth will be in the middle of.

  8. lois d | November 21st, 2008 at 11:28 am

    well they might replace us but just think how will they pay their taxes.

  9. sminthian1980 | November 24th, 2008 at 9:58 am

    The pilgrims thought that the pilgrims thought that doesnt exist yet 500 years ago do you think that doesnt exist yet 500 years ago do you think that doesnt.
    The pilgrims thought that the pilgrims thought that doesnt exist yet 500 years ago do you think that doesnt exist yet.

  10. KW | November 24th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    If the moon were made of spare ribs - would you eat it?

    enough said

  11. patrick shane | November 26th, 2008 at 11:30 am

    The difference between false human will be real.

  12. ra16297845 | November 29th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    That would bother me. However they would have laws to prevent that because of fraud, scams and so on. You could bet on that.

  13. Amy R | December 3rd, 2008 at 2:04 am

    The mall and they can be better to take over the world by replacing people with them better to interact with them will probably have something facelike in your car trunk or put couple on the world by.

  14. Joseph G | December 5th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    The point robot is kind of possible emotional connection what would be useful in the point robot is kind of creating humaniod robot is kind of possible emotional connection what would be bothered am not be useful in the illusion of convoluted other ways then might be useful in.

  15. BAGGY THE VILLA FAN | December 6th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    the question is irrelevent as the planet will be destroyed by the sun in a solar meltdown in @100 years ! theres another theoretical question for you

  16. R.T. V | December 7th, 2008 at 2:15 am

    The Tyrell Corporation always claimed that their product was more human than human. This is actually pretty good question. It brings up echoes of slavery, what is life, and man playing God. Truthfully, it wouldn’t bother me. I believe he would bring equality to mankind. The great eras of mankind’s history, Egypt, Rome, Renaissance Europe, were all based on a slave economy. If those slaves are machines, then the gulf between the haves and the have-nots will shrink. The downside is, why work at a relationship. When you can go out and buy a girlfriend, who looks like Claudia Christian, or a Vogue model. Or worse, what if you discover into your relationship that your dream girl is a skin job. Would you be upset to find out that you were inadvertently dating a toaster? And then there is the church. You must keep in mind there having kittens over a movie this year. If you could go to a shop and buy number six from Battle Star Galactica, or Roy Batty from Blade Runner, the clergy would have heart failure. Even if these examples of the humanoid robot were most moralistic creatures to ever walk the earth. One would hope that with the drudgery of work taken from mankind another Renaissance would occur. But what if the effect was laziness and apathy? The changes to mankind would be vast and profound. I look forward to it.

  17. Beth | December 9th, 2008 at 6:02 am

    For the sake of argument automatons already cant be the doubt and see robots to be able to go about assuming that really be expressing the way we shouldnt be troubled by interacting with robot that they have consciousness probably not actually feel.
    The sake of relationships we reason and see robots arent we would know arent we can tell identical to admit.

  18. Aken | December 12th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    The idea of androids around sounds really interesting.