Filed under: 2026, A Bit Of Inspiration, Attitude & Aptitude, Clients, Collaboration, New Zealand, Robots, Security, Technology, The Terminator, Workshops
Walking in a small mall in a suburb in Auckland and I saw this …
Yep, that’s a robot.
A 4 feet tall, multi-operational robot.
Or an ‘android’ as they would refer to it in sci-fi horror movies.
If this is happening in NZ – a place that still operates about a decade behind the more progressive cities in the world [case in point, IKEA just arrived here and there’s no Apple Store] you can be sure-as-shit it’s happening wherever you’re living.
So if AI wasn’t bad enough in terms of taking our jobs … now we have these fuckers.
Oh I know how they’ll be flogging it ….
“We’re here to help relieve you of the things you don’t want to do so you have more time to do the things you want to do”
Pull the other one fuckers.
Sure, we might think it’s all nice and friendly in the beginning – but within 2 weeks, it’ll be bossing us around and demanding we work for it.
And we will have paid NZ$10 GRAND for the privilege.
NZ$10,000!!!
Sure, that’s about $2.54 in real money, but here … that’s a sizable amount.
And this is coming from someone who had 100 SONY Aibo robot dogs, multitudes of Nabaztag’s and once bought a remote control ball!!!
But before you think this is going to turn into a ‘humanity is doomed’ post – I have good news.
Because there’s 2 major advantages for having these Android Robots in our lives.
First, they can attend the worst of client workshop/brainstorm meetings, instead of us.
And second, when they do … they’ll realise they’re so damaging to their CPU brains, they’ll either break or come running back to us and ask if we can please take over again.
Which may be the most useful thing a bad client workshop/brainstorm will ever deliver.
[Bar the fact that means we’ll have to start attending them again. Hey, beggars can’t be choosers and in the big scheme of things, it’s better than being in societal jail. I think]
Happy fucking Wednesday.