{"id":3569,"date":"2010-08-13T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2024-02-14T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:26:01","slug":"the-first-church-of-robotics-jaron-lanier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2010\/08\/13\/the-first-church-of-robotics-jaron-lanier\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Church of Robotics &#8211; Jaron Lanier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lanier is normally a really weird boy but he is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/09\/opinion\/09lanier.html?_r=2&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=jaron%20lanier&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dead on<\/a>&nbsp;in this critique over how we are developing robotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robots, droids, whatever are tools. They may evolve past that someday but we may not be responsible for that. They aren&#8217;t toys, nor should they be dumbed down so people think they are cute. That should be a marketing decision, not a design one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lanier is normally a really weird boy but he is&nbsp;dead on&nbsp;in this critique over how we are developing robotics. Robots, droids, whatever are tools. They may evolve past that someday but we may not be responsible for that. They aren&#8217;t toys, nor should they be dumbed down so people think they are cute. That should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3570,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}