{"id":44,"date":"2005-03-09T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T00:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=44"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T22:16:08","slug":"fido-sit-fido-fetch-fido-infiltrate-and-detonate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Fido, sit. Fido, fetch. Fido, infiltrate and detonate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/pic\/Big_Dog.png\" alt=\"Image of Boston Dynamics BigDog Robot\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nRead something today that reminded me of this, the first paragraph from William Gibson&#8217;s novel <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0441117732\/103-0474097-1245453\">Count Zero<\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They set a slamhound on Turner&#8217;s trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having read that, now take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/001423.html\">this link<\/a> (courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/\">Engadget<\/a>) on what the mad scientists at Darpa are trying to create.<\/p>\n<p>[Note: Links went dead, so here&#8217;s a Wikipedia entry &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BigDog\">BigDog<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read something today that reminded me of this, the first paragraph from William Gibson&#8217;s novel Count Zero: They set a slamhound on Turner&#8217;s trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[115,126,131],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cyberpunk","tag-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}