{"id":1312,"date":"2005-01-14T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/14\/are_killer_aibo\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:26:21","slug":"are_killer_aibo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/14\/are_killer_aibo\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Killer Aibos Inevitable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been <a title=\"Over at Ultrasparky...\" href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/2005\/01\/for_fracks_sake.html\">gushing<\/a> already about the new <i><a href=\"http:\/\/scifi.com\/battlestar\/\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/i> on my other site so I won&#8217;t repeat my praises here. One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naladahc.com\/\">commenters<\/a>, though, was bemoaning the new show\u2019s lack of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvacres.com\/robots_muffit.htm\">Muffit<\/a>, the robot pal of young <a title=\"Noah Hathaway, who turned into a tattooed hottie, it seems\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ugo.com\/channels\/filmtv\/features\/noahhathaway\/\">Boxy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I loved Muffit and miss him in the new show, but the more I thought about it the more I realized he wouldn\u2019t work so easily in a story whose premise is based on a society living in terror of artificial intelligence run amok. There would be too strong a taboo against creating a robot dog that could learn how to love. They\u2019d be too scared it would turn into a nightmare scenario like in Grant Morrison&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popcultureshock.com\/reviews.php?id=3199\">We3<\/a>.<\/i> Of course, it could also be pretty awesome if it turned into a scenario like the geniusness of <i>We3,<\/i> but it\u2019s probably not what the writers have in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Still, can\u2019t you just picture it?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/muffit.jpg\" alt=\"Muffit\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/we3.jpg\" alt=\"Nice puppy\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been gushing already about the new Battlestar Galactica on my other site so I won&#8217;t repeat my praises here. One of the commenters, though, was bemoaning the new show\u2019s lack of Muffit, the robot pal of young Boxy. I loved Muffit and miss him in the new show, but the more I thought about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/14\/are_killer_aibo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are Killer Aibos Inevitable?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76918,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/76918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}