Showing posts with label Life at home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life at home. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

About being grown up

Being grown up is a state where you have convinced yourself that you know more about life than somebody else. Thus grown up means that you think that you have grown in mental size up upon some other people.

An amusing idea.

Are you really bigger or do you just copy behaviour to pretend that you are bigger ? Do you use those phrases or cloth to pretend ?

And by the way: Is it really necessary for your life to be bigger than someone else ??

Maybe you should have a look upwards to realize that there are other peole who have grown even above your size.

My suggestion: Don't waste too much time on thinking about your size. It's all relative.

Just try to learn some more every day and pass your knowledge on.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Domestic Robots

I've been to the movies: Naturally, just for reasons of scientific research. Allright... j/k. Watched this animated picture named Robots.

Robots It's a computer animated Sci-Fi movie. Kind of a Sci-Fi fairy tale actually.

Storyline: Young roboter boy goes to town, finds a girl and makes his fortune.

Solid movie if you know what I mean.

In fact, it reminded me of the development of real domestic robots. Robots that somehow look similar to the human body and do all sorts of useful things for their respective owners.


The research and development on such robots is obviously mainly pushed in Asia in these days, mostly by Japanese companies such as Toyota, Honda, Sony and Fujitsu.

If it came to the German public that a German company was working on that matter, I'm not sure what happened. But I can imagine the voices: They'll kill even the last workingplaces.

And what about German (maybe European ?) managers: Domestic robots ? What's that ? A rediculous new nonsense toy ? Only those Japanese guys can think of such a playful stuff. What a waste of money !

However, last time when their honorable manager fathers were that clever, they decided liquid cristal displays were a nice but useless development. Shortly after, Japanese digital watches made their glorious entrance into the German market.

So, of course, I think different: What a big help would these domestic robots mean to elder people in our society ! Less babies are being born and our society is aging. Even if the domestic robots were just capable of simple actions, there'd be a market. And these robots could be on duty almost 24/7. This also in regard to the fact that a 24 hr social worker is more expensive than a robot.

Domestic robots could perform simple actions like opening or closing a window, picking up the newspaper downstairs, preparing a coffee or tea or just carrying all sorts of things like shopping bags into the car or kitchen or bring out the trash can.

Well, let's just wait another five years.