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Quick Hit: Pick Your Robit

Thor Benander
October 1, 2022
Thor Benander
Thor Benander is the Editor-in-Chief of The Antagonist and a father of four. He’s a lover of ancient history, Greek food, and sports. He loves to travel and thinks that if libraries were the center of American society, many things would improve overnight. You can hit him up at hilordcastleton@gmail.com.

Let’s play a game about robots (or as I call them in a Cletus-like twang, Robits), shall we?

Don’t you worry, Old Boy. They’re coming.

The Robotting World is only going to explode ad infinitum in our lifetimes and the lifetimes of our children, eventually leading to the inevitable singularity, the Robot War and humans being incarcerated and/or used as batteries. So sayeth the Book of Morpheus.

It’s just science.

But right now, in our backasswards world where we:

  • burn liquified dinosaurs for propulsion
  • have children attend school based on an agrarian calendar designed to get them out early enough to do their farm chores
  • use melted metal to hold together metal pipes
  • co-opt the world’s oceans for use as a trash dumpster

…what do your eyes tell you?

Has peak capitalism inculcated you enough with an eye for the intersection of biz and tech to pick which is the better product?

Let your eyes decide.

PRODUCT 1: TESLABOT FROM TESLA

PRODUCT 2: ATLAS FROM BOSTON DYNAMICS

So what say you, good people of the future?

Thor Benander Author
Thor Benander is the Editor-in-Chief of The Antagonist and a father of four. He’s a lover of ancient history, Greek food, and sports. He loves to travel and thinks that if libraries were the center of American society, many things would improve overnight. You can hit him up at hilordcastleton@gmail.com.
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