The Iceberg

According to this National Geographic story, South Korea aims to place a robot in every home by the year 2020. On the surface, this sounds like a good idea. Imagine a world of sexbots like the one in AI. What might this robot look like? Well, these are just preliminary models in need of a few enhancements, but chances are they will resemble something like the following:

The female model:

As for the male version, here are two prototypes:

The one on the left has had a little more detail work done on its face.

Ah, but do you smell something sinister in the air? If you read the article closely, you will notice a few points which ought to raise a few hairs on the back of your neck.

“South Korea intends to make robots full members of society.”

My interpretation: Is that stone-faced ajumma on the subway real or Memorex? You’ll never know - UNTIL YOUR DEAD!

“The new breed of ‘bots should be able to do everything from guiding museum visitors to teaching school children English.”

Bye, bye American (and Canadian) pie. The only thing left for most native English speakers will be to tour the museums. THEN THEY’LL HAVE YOU WHERE THEY WANT YOU!

“The South Korean Ministry of Information and Communication wants to use these existing robots as a platform for intelligent service robots by integrating network capabilities into them.”

Think about that. NETWORK CAPABILITIES! No big deal, you say? You’ll sing a different tune when a truck-full of robots start attacking your car as you’re driving down the freeway.

Perhaps you think I’m being too paranoid. If so, then have a gander at this quote from none other than the man who actually oversees the massive intelligence-service-robot project, Oh Sang-rok:

“If we (South Koreans) could show some killer applications with favorable business models…”

You need read no more. That’s the smoking gun right there, ladies and gentlemen.

They intend to kill us.