I am not a huge sports fan, and some sports that have become international obsessions leave me completely cold. I do not understand how people can enjoy Formula 1. To me it’s no more interesting than watching the passing traffic on the freeway. I don’t enjoy watching golf, or snooker, which both involve watching men making serious faces and concentrating a lot, and then waiting to see if a ball will go into a hole or not.
They Will Do Lots of Things
One sport I always enjoy watching, when it comes around every 4 years in the Olympics, is gymnastics. Both men’s and women’s. The reason I like it is because it is just amazing that people can do that with their bodies, it’s something I could never do, and I’m impressed and proud to be a member of the human race, a species which has such amazing creatures in it.
Then, I saw this. It’s pretty amazing, too, and the implications go way beyond sports. If we’ve got robots twirling around a bar at that speed and land a perfect quadruple back flip, it’s only a matter of time until they develop ones that look like human beings and can still do it, because the doing it is the hard point, the Japanese have had the aesthetic part down for a while now. What will that do to my viewing pleasure?
But beyond that, if we’ve got robots that can twirl around a bar at that speed and land a quadruple back flip, we can have superhero robots, out fighting crime and keeping the streets safe. Of course, there might be robotic super jewel thieves, too. That could get interesting.
Circuses might entirely shift to robot trapeze artists. Crowds would not know the difference, they would be amazed, and if one falls, nobody dies.
Certainly, the days of human beings going down into mines is nearly over, and robot astronauts will play a bigger part in the colonization of space than human astronauts will.
And, as the robots get more and more agile, their brains will become more and more sophisticated, since we are advancing on every front, moving toward the singularity.
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