One of the main reasons I want to be rich is so that when I am, and when high-quality cybernetic replacements for the human body become available, I’m going to get one of them and transplant myself into it. I’m then going to go on an uninterrupted killing spree for about 5 years. Oh, it’s going to be great.
Basically I think being some kind of elite robot assasin is the best job I can imagine. Well, being in globe would also be the best. But just think – half the time unstoppable killing machine, the other half international rock star! What could be better?
I hope I don’t get killed crossing the road or poisoned before I have the chance to be repurposed into state-of-the-art silicon and metal. I’m looking forward to my first cybernetically-assisted leap onto the roof of a building, or running with impunity through a hail of government bullets. Perhaps I could gather a group of like-minded cyborgs, and we could dish out brutal justice to the dictators and high-placed criminals of the world. Or just use high frequency blades, monofilament wire and sniping rifles to mercilessly kill anyone who has ever annoyed me as I walk through this parched world.
Of course, it’s a bit unlikely that I’ll ever be a member of globe, and there is also the possibility that the perfection of human-replacement robotics lags behind and I never live to see their introduction. I’d also be satisfied with the life of an industrialist – producing an ever cooler inventory of lethal weapons and hulking, armed transport planes made from carbon fiber. Maybe some autonomous robot warrior machines would be available by that time. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than landing in some remote village in Indonesia and “liberating” the sweatshop workers from both their exploitative, menial labours and also their hopeless, unnecessary lives in a devastating hail of automatic fire. In time, the image of my signature fleet of intimidating black gunships would strike terror into the heart of third world countries everywhere!
Ah, the future. Whatever happens, the future is an exciting place!
September 17th, 2005 at 5:05 pm
This sounds a lot like the Great Japanese Dream – the robot stuff I mean. I would say that the majority of japanese men also share this fantasy. Guess you’ll fit right in over here!
September 17th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
wow,i cannot guess what will happen in the coming robot age.
maybe,they will totally replace of us~
September 18th, 2005 at 12:33 am
“People love machines in 2029 A.D.”
Are you saying you WOULDN’T replace your decrepit, malfunctioning middle-aged body with machinery? I can’t understand that attitude at all. I would replace it in a second – in fact I have been looking forward to it all my life.
September 18th, 2005 at 11:56 am
But how would you know if it was your real brain and not just a copy that was in the shell? After all, you can’t see your own brain…
September 20th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
Sure, perhaps in the year 3000.
I don’t want to walk around looking like Asimo.
September 21st, 2005 at 11:09 am
The year 3000 will bring a level of technology we cannot even conceive. I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to expect the kind of technology i refer to here in the next 50 years or even less. As always, it will depend on many things, principally the growth of the global economy, although it is possible that a war – a big war, not like we have now – could accelerate things markedly.
It took 30 years to go from mainframes to the iPod nano. Asimo is further along than the clunky mainframes of old – I predict great acceleration in this field in the coming years. Assuming we can keep the economies on track.
March 28th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
[...] A while ago, Sho, a friend of mine now living in Japan who aspires to be an elite robotic assassin and hates sleep, wrote to me to challenge some of the things I have said in recent times about making music and what I want to achieve musically. He was typically confrontational and often harsh in his dialogue, but he made some good points and raised important questions for me. I have thought much upon my musical ´career´since then and what follows is a statement / response style post which outlines Sho´s basic views and my responses. [...]