Re: Hawaii uses a $150,000 robot dog... 📂 Archived Message Posted by Ken Waldron on October 22, 2021, 4:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Hawaii uses a $150,000 robot dog..." "I was alluding to the fact that this enterprise using robodogs is likely to be quite expensive since it would need an army (?) of operatives (before it goes fully AI). It would eat up the social budget/s in a jiffy." Ah right; operating costs would would indeed add a bundle and it would of course add that rentier element. -You could make at least quarter of a million meals for the homeless just for the cost of the sniffer "dog" alone. Wonder how many homeless could be actually housed for the cost of the whole tech-show? Message Thread: How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism - johnlilburne October 21, 2021, 10:56 am Robot dog in Hawaii being used to test homeless for Covid. - johnlilburne October 21, 2021, 11:05 am Notice the operative word "It 'can' deliver food and water" ... - Tomski October 21, 2021, 1:58 pm Hawaii uses a $150,000 robot dog... - Ken Waldron October 21, 2021, 3:21 pm Re: Hawaii uses a $150,000 robot dog... - Tomski October 21, 2021, 11:09 pm Re: Hawaii uses a $150,000 robot dog... - Ken Waldron October 22, 2021, 1:22 pm Re: Hawaii uses a $150,000 robot dog... - Tomski October 22, 2021, 3:29 pm Re: Hawaii uses a $150,000 robot dog... - Ken Waldron October 22, 2021, 4:09 pm « Index   Searching