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Google announces new robot patents on a technology that will eventually allow an easy life. But even now help software and delivery services to lead the life of a hermit total – in the middle of the city.

By MICHAEL Moorstedt

The price of the scariest invention of the month goes again to Google. “Methods and classification of personality development for robot” is the title of US Patent No. 8,996,429th This involves stated by participating Google employees to software that analyzes all user interactions and habit patterns examined. It examines the correspondence takes voice samples of the contacts, store their photos and transmits these features on the robot. Might then ask, for example, with voice and trademarks of his own mother if it “is not the time to clean the fridge, darling?”

“Software is eating the world,” reads a quip the investment mogul Marc Andreessen. He meant especially the permanent destruction and rethinking of inefficient business models. But it seems to be just as this law would not stop now before the inhabitants of this world. Human interaction happens to be particularly inefficient. In a paradoxical twist is the Internet, which is actually an incredibly social technology, increasingly to replace their own fellow human beings through technology. This is still a vision for the future. Google will not say whether already worked actively in the implementation of the said patent anyway.

But even today are just people with low skills by software wegrationalisiert , even in areas where people were considered essential time not too long ago. Thus, the mobile phone provider O2 leaves most of its customer service in the UK now handled by software. “The artificial intelligence mimics the human, it does exactly what a person would do,” the responsible project manager would. “If you watch one of these things at work, it’s a bit crazy. You see them tap, open, copy and paste new window.” 150 employees had reason to go.

And what does it do to the people who benefit from the development, so with consumers? The much praised in the past, sharing economy was in truth a Shut-in-Economy , says an online magazine Matter article. A young, urban and affluent elite it go less about sharing, but to be all about to be operated. “I’m Henry David Thoreau with wifi”, is also the author of Dylan’s love would be in an essay in allusion to the writer who once moved as a hermit in a cabin in the woods.

Similarly deposited, but much more comfortable, you can now also exist in an apartment in New York – thanks to countless online services that bring the orders the same day, whether it is food or clothes. The best part was the “total absence of human communication,” writes Love. He let himself put his program just before the door.

All of the services that are supposed to serve the exemption from everyday stress, thus leading to more self-induced constriction. “LEAVE NO MORE YOUR APARTMENT”, says intrusive capital letter at about the delivery DoorDash . What was once considered a threat today is a promise.