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"What is more, the challenges facing the robotics industry are similar to those we tackled in computing three decades ago. Robotics companies have no standard operating software that could allow popular application programs to run in a variety of devices. The standardization of robotic processors and other hardware is limited, and very little of the programming code used in one machine can be applied to another. Whenever somebody wants to build a new robot, they usually have to start from square one."
Little Willi's announcement to f*&$ up another industry?

I read, or rather use to read, the Scientific American on a monthly basis, in other words regularly. While living in Germany, the local version consumed was called Spektrum Der Wissenschaft, a name that lacks any nationalistic sentiment, and is far more descriptive - sorry for that tangent. Anyhow, for me it was always important to have an overview over the latest research in all fields of science, as not to be stuck in a physics and maths world only. And to hear it form the cows mouth, not its ass.

How times change. Today Slashdot referred to an article on Scientific American, where the ass was provided with ample space for its flatulence. After all, what would little Willi know about robotics? And how dare they label him "the leader of the PC revolution". What an insult to such people as Wozniak and other brilliant minds, as those working for Xerox, the actual source little Willi "got his visions" from.

I'm not going to link to the article I'm discussing directly, because I want to spare my readers from the self-indulgent and delusional "visions" of little Willi, mixed with a bunch of sentences I could swear to have already read somewhere else. In all of Scientific Americans publishing history, this must be by miles the article with the most appearances of the personal pronoun "I".

I would really like to know, what's so "visionary" about claiming something, the brightest minds have been talking and working on for the past couple of centuries? Especially at a time, where Roombas are entering many homes. Even my technophobe grandmother has been pondering to get one. And that's a women with an ATM phobia! What part had little Willi played in this? None what so ever! But now he comes along and claims "I can envision a future in which robotic devices will become a nearly ubiquitous part of our day-to-day lives". Sounds like the mumbo-jumbo one might be used to hear on Psychic-TV.

I'm just an enthusiast of robotics, and have only recently been reading up on the current state of robotics. Never the less, this bloke doesn't mention anything that hasn't been said in the past 10 years. And besides the constant self-references and subtle advertising of his corrupt business, every word written that is actually on topic, seem to be words hacked by someone else's keyboard. Little Willi sticks to his old tricks - relying on the wealth of his parents and ideas of other people.