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TOKYO (AFP) - For those who feel a bit lonely just talking on the phone, a Japanese company is offering a cellphone that turns into a robot buddy ready to chat. Softbank Mobile Corp.'s new mobile line looks like a small humanoid with attachable arms and legs, with the screen showing various faces.
Not only do the cells come with Optimus Prime-type limbs, they're equipped with artificial intelligence that learns their owner's habits. "If the user calls a particular person many times, a text phrase such as 'You're calling her often these days, aren't you?' might appear coming out of the face's mouth." Humans can then answer by typing Yes or No.
It all sounds so... I was going to say creepy, but for the sake of argument let's go with innocent. Hypothetical question: What happens if a lonesome commuter downloads a cell phone novel onto her robot? Love Sky, the cell phone novel that became Japan's number one best seller last year, is "A tear-jerker featuring adolescent sex, rape, pregnancy and a fatal disease — the genre’s sine qua non." It captures "the young generation’s attitude, its verbal tics and the cellphone’s omnipresence."
And when the cell robot gets all its knowledge about human behavior from melodramatic adolescent novels? What will its AI make of us?
Says the manufacturer: "Your mobile would grow into a buddy different from others that is unique in the world."
Yeah, right. Your nosy, omnipresent buddy: different and unique and convinced by trashy cell phone fiction that humans are disease-ridden nymphos.
I'm sure the manufacturer will insist that the robot buddies are friendly. But that's what everybody said about the cyborgs, until the day Skynet became self-aware and Schwarzenegger crashed through the time portal to hunt down Sarah Connor.
Think I'll go read Jane Austen and wait for Armageddon.
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This anectode from my mate Swoo who is a library manager - he's showing some big cheese from a "morketing" agency around the library, trying to explain all the services they offer, being polite and affable (as ever) and trying to impress upon the "morketeer" just how wonderful libraries are. Only trouble is he keeps being interrupted by their resident weirdo who shouts things across the room like "How do you spell strychnine?" and "How come yiz don't have any bukes on poisoning?" and "What website do I go to to see about gettin' a gun license?" etc. Kind of took the gloss off.
He went on to explain that said weirdo is obsessed with the fact that you can kill someone with a biro, is boning up on Krav Maga and has ordered in a book about snipers. I thought our "True Crime" lurkers were dodgy. Swoo asked me if we had any books on poisoning etc. and I told him that we do, at least we have one on poisons that I could think of. I also (stupidly) told him that my greatest shame was having ordered in books on forensics, so all my would-be-killers lurking around all day reading about their predecessors can now figure out how not to leave any evidence (apart from hours of CCTV footage of them doing their "research" in the shop). He laughed and said he'd be sending his weirdo our way.
Great.
Must remember to tell everyone to hide all biros...
tagged me earlier this month with the Library Lovers meme for . And I thought, "how convenient to have a meme for when I am in need of something to write about." And then I promptly forgot about it. Until now. At least February isn't over yet, though I am cutting it close (yay for Leap Day!).
How do you plan on celebrating Library Lovers month?
At this point it is more accurate to say how I actually celebrated the month. I can't say that I did anything out of the usual. I volunteer at the library every other weekend. And I am in the midst of library school working for an MLIS. Can I love libraries any more that I that? How often do you accidentally spell library as 'libary' when you're in a hurry?
I was going to say never, but then in my answer to the previous question, I typed "libary." Since I had read through the questions prior to starting to answer them, I'm going to claim the power of suggestion was at work on that one. What is the most amount of books you've ever had checked out at one time?
The most books I have ever checked out of the public library is probably about five. When I was in college though, I regularly had ten to fifteen books checked out to me. What is the longest you've ever gone without visiting the library?
Two, maybe three months. What is the biggest fine you've ever had?
I think the biggest fine I've ever had is $5. I could be wrong though. I'm very careful in general about turning books in on time because I feel really guilty about fines. Thus, I try not to remember fines I've paid in the past because I like to forget about things that make me feel bad. When you go to the library, do you plan ahead and make a list? Or do you browse?
These days I rarely browse at the library. I usually have my list of books I have looked up beforehand so I know if they are there and where they are. I used to browse a lot, but since my husband got a job in bookstore management ten years ago, my need to browse to find out what books are new no longer exists. Have you ever been shushed by a librarian?
Not that I can remember. What's the worst thing you've ever done to a library book?
Not having a piece of scrap paper to hand to mark a passage, I lightly penciled and "x" in the margin. I think I may have dog eared a page once as well. Does this mean I can't be a librarian? Have you ever had a "favorite" librarian?
Yes. When I was in third grade, the school librarian (I don't remember her name anymore) was one of my most favorite people in the whole world. I was obsessed with Helen Keller and she found me some used kids books about her and gave them to me. She also wrote to the Braille Institute on my behalf and they sent her a brochure about Braille with the Braille alphabet punched into it. She was the coolest librarian ever. If you could change one thing about your library it would be...
The hours. Because of budget constraints my local library is only open five days a week for only 6-8 hours. Two of the days during the week they close at 6 making it virtually impossible for me to go there on those two days. Before the January 1st merger of the Minneapolis City library system with the Hennepin County library system, my library was only open four days a week for even fewer hours. I wish the city, and now the county, would find a way to fully fund the libraries so they can be open everyday, all day.
Today in our management meeting, our Executive Director, Gina Millsap, made the comment to the effect that much of the talk with open source systems is just using that tool to replicate existing ILS practices.This thought ties into my recent post about the inter-relation between library catalogs and other sources such as bookstores.All of this makes me think that we should really talk about what we want our ILS to do for us.What would it look like?I’m going to pretend that I don’t know anything about BI or catalogs or any of that library stuff.I actually had pretty good BI as a kid, thank you to my school librarians, but I’m pretending a dream system here!When I want to find something – I put whatever comes to my mind into the computer and it tells me where I can find it.A map of the library pops up on the screen and it leads me to the correct shelf and shows me what the book looks like and exactly where it is.If the “book” comes in an audiobook format or as a movie it needs to show me those options as well, even if they are not located next to each other.I don’t want a big list of things.I somehow want it to understand what I’m looking for and make the necessary decisions to provide that for me.I’m not a techie person, so have no idea how this would actually happen.A big Google-like list of things is not helpful in this case.I want the system to do the work for me.It would provide me the options of finding something else or if what it found was not correct, it would provide some options for me to pursue.It would also give me connections to other similar items; the “if you like this, you might like..” concept.What do you want to see in a system like this?
Chapter Two discusses a new reading selection the first Thursday of each month at 12:30 p.m. and hosts a recap meeting the third Thursday of each month at 4:00 p.m. The meetings are held in the SCC Cherokee Library, room 105. All are welcome (staff, faculty, and students).