The nerve could be rewired to the point where the connection attaches to the skin, but then it would make more sense to put them somewhere more convenient. I would prefer to be able to lie down when I was jacking in.

I suppose it's symbolic of his connection being his burden.

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He's right, autonomous robots are still only advancing slowly, the problem is motor intelligence, sensing and navigation. But if we put human driver in charge of the robot, that problem is quickly solved--as our Hellfire launching UAVs have demonstrated. The police already do this when confronting hostage takers or other dangerous situations.

There are people who pay kids in China to power level MMORPG characters for them and apparently these Chinese gamer boiler rooms still turn a small profit.

Is it so far fetched that someone somewhere will actually try something like this one day soon? Maybe the robot butler science fiction has so long predicted may become fact but not in the way we expect.

Of this could lead to all kinds of new problems. Imagine a disgruntled worker in Costa Rica that decides to go postal with a 12 ton garbage truck robot in NYC?

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