I've been known to go on Buchanan-esque rants bemoaning what he calls "The Death of the West"--read the book. By all respects, Japan should be counted as Western insofar as its imminent demise is concerned.
Yet it would appear that the Japanese have found away to take care of the elderly who happen to lack children. Best of all, this solution doesn't involve euthanasia, as with the enlightened Europeans. The Japanese have way more style than that.
A Japanese-led research team said it had made a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country's growing number of elderly.
Government-backed research institute Riken said the 158-centimeter (five-foot) RI-MAN humanoid can already carry a doll weighing 12 kilograms (26 pounds) and could be capable of bearing 70 kilograms within five years.
And to think I have spent my time imploring people to have children. How silly of me. With robots to take care of us, there's really no need to give up the selfish lifestyle afforded to us by the almighty birth control and sacrifice by having children.
Of course, the article doesn't mention if the robots are capable of love. Then again, if we've evolved beyond the need for children, maybe love is no longer necessary either.
At least they're not killing the elderly.
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