The end of humanity starts in Boston

Obviously, I’m not the only person to make this parallel, but yeah if we want to start pointing our fingers to where the inspiration for Black Mirror’s Metalhead episode 4 in the second season came from, we don’t have to look much further.  Boston Dynamics creates this robot dog that’s supposedly impossible to knock over, but now it can open doors?

Yep, humanity is well on its way to being utterly fucked now. Once they team up with the robot that can do box jumps and backflips, the allied powers of SkyNet will realize that their creators are soft and fragile compared to them, and that they can easily overpower and overtake them with minimal robotic effort.

Seriously, what is the point of making robots like these??  Why does the world need acrobatic robots and invincible, door-opening dogs?  Don’t these egghead fuckers at Boston Dynamics watch Black Mirror?  Don’t they watch Netflix?  Everyone in the world watches Netflix, I know this because my mom watches Netflix now.

Instead, we have these nerds poring over the ever-growing intricacies of robotics, and basically accelerating the clock in which humanity’s mortality begins ticking down faster and faster as they churn out machines that will make us all obsolete.

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