Path: The First
I'm searching websites of colleges in the south east for professorial contacts that we can use to cull some raw, young talent for programming positions and internships opening up at my company. My first stop is Georgia Tech. Knowing many graduates through ultimate (Mr. Parham, Suckit Parag, Mati Heartpower, etc...) and how capable and smart (read as: "perfect dork-company material") they were, I was feeling good about my chances.
Then I stumble upon this text in their School of Interactive Computing writeup.
Much of the research within the School of Interactive Computing produces new artifacts that embody new capabilities or methods. Examples include:
- Individuals working with traditional computers
- Groups of people using ubiquitous computing capabilities throughout various environments
- Researchers visualizing scientific data
- Students developing and altering middle school physics simulations
- Automated intelligent surveillance systems monitoring airport tarmacs
- Robots delivering pharmaceuticals to patients in hospitals
Path: The Second
I was disturbed by my immediate "free associations" as fleeting thoughts invaded my head. First Cheech Marin in scrubs. Then Nurse Ratched shooting lasers out of her eyes. Finally Patch Adams' head coming unhinged in a smoky, sparking flash to reveal various multicolored wires underneath. I was a little disappointed I didn't immediately get Johnny 5 with a stethoscope.
Of course, my immediate response to the shame of my overactive imagination was to find someone else out there like me. Will anyone understand me? Who am I?
It's clear from a quick search through Google Images that indeed, someone somewhere has thought long and hard about the idea of robot doctors.
Of course, my immediate response to the shame of my overactive imagination was to find someone else out there like me. Will anyone understand me? Who am I?
It's clear from a quick search through Google Images that indeed, someone somewhere has thought long and hard about the idea of robot doctors.
And so two paths converge in confluence. Sure, one may be born out of the other, but together they form a near-perfect circle. What but the perfection of form and ideal could result in the utterly ridiculous image above?!
In my mind, there are two lessons to take from this. Things are coming in twos today.
Lesson One: No man is an island.
Lesson Two: Chicks dig big metal dudes.
1 comment:
Ha! That's why robots are awesome. They get all the chicks.
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