Hi. I'm Paul Nixon, a designer living in Mountain View California. My days (and some nights) are spent designing websites for a little company in Cupertino. The rest of my time is spent with my beautiful wife and friends, road cycing and reading your blogs.

The Future Will Be Mechanized

Thursday, December 23, 2004 11: 15 AM

Someday, in perhaps a not so distant future, oppressed mechanized backyard welders will rise up in rebellion against a robot army to reclaim their freedom.

Amazing how technology is slowly catching up to science fiction. The question in the back of my mind is whether or not we are allowing the science fiction visions of a mechanized future create a path of self-fulfilling prophecy that we are unable to step back from and ask: Is this the best application of the this technology?

Regardless, in the end, I just don't want to be the one carrying supplies when we are trying to save Zion from the machines.