For $15,000 your office can buy a robot that any employee can then log into and manoeuvre. It can attend meetings for you while you sit at home, surfing porn and tweeting in your cheesie stained underwear. You look through its eyes and it displays a live webcam of your face. Not a bad idea. It’s like The Surrogates.
And it just goes to show the classist prejudice that science fiction robots have operated under for too long. The idea is that “menial” jobs will be replaced by robots. My job (bartending, waiting tables) in particular. But to do my job a robot needs to be complicated. It needs pressure sensitive hands, incredible amounts of mobility and small talk. To do an office job it needs what? A camera on a broomstick attached to some wheels.
Kinda makes me wonder why you people get paid so much.
