Comments on: Swarming Robots https://blog.speculist.com/robotics/swarming-robots-1.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Brian H https://blog.speculist.com/robotics/swarming-robots-1.html#comment-479 Brian H Fri, 27 May 2005 20:33:27 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=301#comment-479 imminent: About to occur; impending: in imminent danger.

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]]> By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/robotics/swarming-robots-1.html#comment-478 Stephen Gordon Fri, 20 May 2005 08:18:30 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=301#comment-478 Fears of looking like Pigpen aside:

http://www.nrm.org/exhibits/schulz/gallery/pigpen.gif

walking around with your own “utility fog” would be beyond useful.

No need for clothes – the fog could be any kind of clothes you want. It would keep the body clean and otherwise maintained. No need for any other external (or internal?) technology. It could be an all-purpose communication, computation, work and entertainment device.

I suppose it could even be configured to be a transportation device.

Unfortunately, this is not the “next big thing.” It’s more like the big thing that comes after four or five other big things.

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