Andy Kessler Quote

http://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/2006/07/on_disruption_i.html

"There really isn't a business model for early detection, not yet. There is more of a negative for expensive pharmaceuticals and treatment centers, the day that heart disease, stroke and cancer begin to subside in numbers.

However, sometime in the next several years [around 2011], as the silicon and software and algorithms developed for early detection begin to get cheap enough, these business models will emerge, and you will see venture capitalists step up to fund interesting companies and IPOs of the hot new early detection players. 3-D imaging, computer aided detection, biomarkers, molecular imaging probes, nanotech scan devices for antibody chips, these are all areas that we will see companies emerge."

"Robot manufacturing to be Taiwan's next booming industry: MOEA"

"The IDB predicted that by 2016, AI robot manufacture alone could generate an output value of NT$250 billion and an export value of NT$175 billion."

"Virtual bees help robots see in 3D"

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D5931

Outsourcing Doctors

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/08-17e-04.asp

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1934612,00.asp

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/05/outsourcing_sur.html

Yale, MIT, and Princeton Classes Available to Robots Online

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=13549043&src=rss/domesticNews

Nanotechnology

"There exists the potential to design and fabricate artificial structures analogous to natural cells and even organisms."

"How To Be Human"

"Call-center data could be what's needed to achieve the ultimate goal of AI: creating a computer program smart enough to hold a natural conversation and passing the Turing Test.

Rollo Carpenter, this year's winner of the Loebner Prize, created a program that learns by analyzing its conversations with people as they "chat" with it online. He is now extending his nearly 10 years of data by training a bot on call-center data."

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D5924

"Japanese prof thinks robots need emotional sensibilities"

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/20/japanese-prof-thinks-robots-need-emotional-sensibilities/

From a Scientific (Academic) Paper

"The first operating biological nanorobots are expected to appear in the coming 5 years and more complex diamondoid based nanorobots will become available in about 10 years."

Marshall Brain “proposes that by 2020, a huge segment of the service sector will be replaced by robot labor, leading to extreme unemployment.”

“Robots will be moving in to make the completely automated retail store a reality in a 2020 time frame.”

“2020 was the year that computer vision came of age.”

“By combining the walking robot and the self-driving car in 2018, the researchers demonstrated a completely robotic delivery system for a pizza restaurant.”

"All of the fast food chains watched the Burger-G experiment with Manna closely, and by 2012 they started installing Manna systems as well. By 2014 or so, nearly every business in America that had a significant pool of minimum-wage employees was installing Manna software or something similar."

"AI Invades Go Territory"

http://wired.com/news/technology/0,71804-0.html?tw=wn_index_3

Hospital Faces Financial Hardship

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/15547064.htm

I could also try to get the United Nations to have a conference for the effects of robots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dunant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva#International_organizations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_nations

http://www.worldmun.org/2007/aboutus/

"New robot skin feels real"

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/20/skin-it-does-a-robot-good/#comments

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/09/19/new_robot_skin.html

"Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring"

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D5921

"One day it may be possible to distribute a whole brain simulation over the internet."

"To understand the principles of human intelligence we need to reverse-engineer the human brain. Here, progress is far greater than most people realise. The spatial and temporal resolution of brain scanning is progressing at an exponential rate, roughly doubling each year. Scanning tools, such as a new system from the University of Pennsylvania, can now see individual interneuronal connections and watch them fire in real time. Already, we have mathematical models of a couple of dozen regions of the brain, including the cerebellum, which comprises more than half the neurons in the brain.

IBM is creating a highly detailed simulation of about 10,000 cortical neurons, including tens of millions of connections. The first version will simulate electrical activity and a future version will also simulate chemical activity. By the mid-2020s, it is conservative to conclude that we will have effective models of the whole brain."

I e-mailed robotfuturenews.blogspot.com to the United Nations and World Model UN.

Intel researchers claim chip breakthrough

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?dist=newsfinder&siteid=google&guid=%7BE7976FD9-97B0-4ECF-8DF2-FD3BFA5F7F3E%7D&keyword=

I think the probability of the robotic nation occuring is 90% so I wonder what everyone is waiting for. You can set your watch by computer advancements.