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Click to viewDoes this make anyone else a bit twitchy when not only have we taken steps to avoid talking to people in real life (Hi there cell phone!), but now we're starting to take steps to where we aren't even interacting with real PEOPLE anymore?
Don't get me wrong I do think this is incredibly cool, and I'm amazed at the leaps that we've made as a society in artificial intelligence, but this is worrisome. Like, Matrix worrisome. Like, Skynet worrisome. I've seen some of the other features of Natal, including the communications capabilities (video teleconference via XBox Live including data transfer), and who's to say that if you piss Milo off, that he won't contact all your friends and say that you called them all douche bags?
Shut off the XBox and do your homework!
Sorry, I can't let you do that...
Fun Fact: The name HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey was actually a +1 Shift cypher.
H+1=I A+1=B L+1=M HAL=IBM...funny, huh?