{"id":5467,"date":"2015-12-05T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2015-12-05T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T13:36:15","slug":"future-life-with-pepper-softbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2015\/12\/05\/future-life-with-pepper-softbank\/","title":{"rendered":"“Future Life with Pepper” @ Softbank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan faces an unprecedented collapse in its population and a rapidly aging society. Moreover, more and more Japanese find themselves living alone, often unmarried and without children. It is in this context that Softbank, launched a new domestic robot “Pepper” which is aimed as much as serving as a companion as it is as a tool.<\/p>\n

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In the following video, Pepper is shown serving as a cheerleader of sorts for various families. Most striking is the<\/p>\n

lonely woman in the first scene who seeks comfort and affection from Pepper.<\/p>\n

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Pepper is above all a reminder that the combination of an aging, childless society with computer technology developing at an<\/p>\n

exponential rate will produce some rather unusual social phenomena. Above all, we are reminded that the future is not that far away at<\/p>\n

all. Like climate change, it is already here with us right now.<\/p>\n

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Here is the video used in the ad:<\/p>\n

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“Future life with Pepper”<\/p>\n

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Japan faces an unprecedented collapse in its population and a rapidly aging society. Moreover, more and more Japanese find themselves living alone, often unmarried and without children. It is in this context that Softbank, launched a new domestic robot “Pepper” which is aimed as much as serving as a companion as it is as a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58155906],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}