Japan, the world’s second largest economy, is facing a demographic crisis that will shrink the population dramatically. The Japanese aren’t having babies, and the country won’t accept immigrants to help bolster the population. But Japan may have a unique solution — Robots!
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October 19th, 2009 - 6:10 am
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October 19th, 2009 - 12:01 pm
So… they begin the video with the problem that Japanese people don’t have enough sex. They end the video with the scientist/robot maker who says that a robot could be a substitute for him to his wife when he’s not home. What?? “You can have this if you want.” No thank you.
October 19th, 2009 - 11:23 pm
the doocumentary almost feels like a prologue to one of those apocalyptic movies where machines gain consciousness and take over the world. it’s like this trauma has already been built into us through hollywood films like ‘I, Robot’, Terminator, Matrix, etc.