{"id":408,"date":"2010-02-23T19:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T02:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2010-02-23T19:54:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T02:54:35","slug":"song-of-the-day-the-future-now-by-peter-hammill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “The Future Now” by Peter Hammill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, that Peter Hammill!<\/p>\n

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\nAlways running about with a crazed look in his eyes and his half-beard.\u00a0 You see, he was born with a full mustache and beard on the right side of his face.\u00a0 And pointing his thumbs ever outward.<\/p>\n

No, that’s not true.\u00a0 This<\/a> is a good song, however.\u00a0 It’s about how The Present sucks and how The Future is supposed to be better, so let’s just have all that good stuff right now.<\/p>\n

I agree.\u00a0 Except I, as always, have a laser-like focus on the development of female androids.<\/p>\n

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\nThis one’s quite nice, even if it doesn’t have real hair like the other Actroids do.\u00a0 Well, synthetic real hair.\u00a0 I like the hips on that one.\u00a0 And the thighs.\u00a0 And probably the ass too.\u00a0 I’m sure with some modifications it could make a great accessory for my bed.<\/p>\n

I was going to post and talk about a different Peter Hammill song today.\u00a0 I couldn’t find a YouTube link for “Pompeii”, so here we are with an equally fine track.\u00a0 This was his first solo album released after Van Der Graaf Generator had officially broken up… for the second time.\u00a0 I’m more of a fan of the VDGG stuff, but that’s just me being picky for the old-school early 70s sound.\u00a0 Go out and buy “Pawn Hearts”.<\/p>\n

So, in the future, when I’ve got one or more fembots, I would like them to have removable facemasks, like this:<\/p>\n

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\nI know that real-life androids are not being developed that way.\u00a0 The face for those is something that can’t easily be removed.\u00a0 If a fembot was built my way, it wouldn’t be able to make facial expressions or move its mouth realistically.<\/p>\n

And that’s just fine, because that would make it appear that much more artificial.<\/p>\n

So lets have this future now!\u00a0 Forget about charlatans who try to pass off electronified sex dolls as robots!\u00a0 We want the real deal!\u00a0 When a sexy robot chick can walk over to me, introduce herself to me and tell me what she is, and then have a conversation about how synthetic she is, then I’ll call that an android.<\/p>\n

Oh, and check out my favorite page on FembotWiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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