I hear Peter Weller’s voice saying, “Stay six feet apart, or there will be …Trouble.”
Then the violator says “Fuck you, dog!”
And gets hit with a Taser.
I must admit, that’s not what I thought a robo police dog would sound like.
So, just like Chicago. Except no robot dogs.
So far.
I’ll do you even better on how scary this is gonna get.
They will track you all on your smartphones. A built in app will alert law enforcement if you’ve been within 6 feet of another person and automatically send you a fine to your bank account and withdraw the money without your consent because they can.
They also use drones to track people and monitor them and give you warnings of social distancing in parks or use facial recognition technology to send you fines and tickets (in the US too).
Oh, this isn’t even scratching the surface of what I could tell you is coming. But this is what you all wanted. You love your technologies and beg for more and give more and more of your civil liberties away for the sake of security.
Life is meant to be a little risky. It will soon become unbearable to even live as a flawed human being.
Can’t we go with the premise that someone in the USA would pull out a handgun and shoot that creepy thing, as being the worst possible outcome?
I’m not ready to worry about Big Brother.
I’m still getting used to being on lockdown.
shooting a drone would get you in even more trouble. It won’t happen as much as you think it would. That would be like shooting at a cop car (not the person but just the vehicle passing by or following you).
In China, I heard they already have a lot of facial recognition systems on the streets like cctv and if you jaywalk across the street, they’ll get your face, send you a fine automatically and withdraw it from your bank account without need for consent.
Imagine living like that and for every thing you do out of line with their rules or policies, you get fines. You could end up with several fines totaling over hundreds of dollars just for going out to get a carton of milk.
Oh and China is also cashless society now (moving to remove all cash)…because it’s fun to pay everything from your smartphone…oh sneaky, clever, and awful move!
The credit cards failed to entice the mass populations from getting rid of cash, but the smartphones is the killer. Everyone loves and is addicted to it because it really is an extension of you now…so we are cybernetic organisms, and soon that smartphone, because you love it so much, will be inside us. No need to hold anything or carry anything around.
And everyone must (mandatory by law) be registered and connected to the mainframe network so all can be tracked and monitored. If you are not, you will be considered a criminal, an outlaw, a renegade…there isn’t going to be a choice.
In New York, the thing would be stripped for parts and up on blocks within 15 minutes.
I think you misspelled “Philadelphia” 
Aw, damn, I was waiting to read that the robodogs enforced social distancing by humping your leg.
~VOW
In the Black Mirror episode “Metalhead”, the robot dogs shoot back.
‘Resistance is Futile’
Sounds like the 1950s Robert Sheckley story “Watchbird” (which would be about drones, were it written today)
(The story was abysmally adapted – as almost all Sheckley stories have been – as an episode of Masters of Science Fiction.)
Those dogs were absolutely terrifying. And they were inspired by Boston Dynamics BigDog. They’ve gotten much more agile recently. Unlike real dogs, they have learned how to open doors. :eek:
cornflakes2, if you think ‘getting in trouble’ would stop people from shooting at a drone or a robot dog you’re not living where I live.
In my America (south, full of rednecks and a shit load of guns) this* would not last long. They shoot live people on the regular around here.
I guess if a Bradley tank came through with a message to social.distance peeps might take notice. Then again, that might stir up a crowd just to take selfies with it.
*drones and/or robodogs.
Reason number 892 why I prefer Singapore to Arkansas.
The “horse” version is disturbing too…
I’m all for power to the people and anti-big government for sure.
But dang, it sounds like the wild west where you are from hehe.
I hope they shoot the drones down. Drones are scary as fcuk. I love flying them as a hobby and getting get video for artistic projects…but to use them in warfare, to use them to kill people, track people, control people…ughh…I’d shoot them down if I could, too. But I haven’t even touched on what drones will be able to do. Guns will be useless against them. One example is think about how small they can make them. Literally the size of a house fly and a billion of them scattered in the skies of America all recording, tracking, communicating, coordinating, infiltrating, yes and still fining you, penalizing you, keeping you all in check. You’ll need a new kind of gun to nail em. Bullets just won’t do anymore.
It was humping my laptop, now I got a bunch of smartphones and an arduino board to feed!