01 October 2009
Driving home the reality of assembly-line food
The video above shows food being made in a factory - something you can see on television documentaries any day. But when the "robot pancake sorter" kicks into action it seems to transcend reality. I had to keep reminding myself that I wasn't watching a parody or a brilliant spoof by some Pythonesque wit.
But it's real.
Via Kottke.
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You can't fool me--those aren't pancakes, they're Soylent Green!
ReplyDelete(I really don't understand the concept of packaged pancakes in the first place. It's like packaging fried eggs.)
"speaking about the final solution" (2:28)
ReplyDeleteUh... what?
That statement is quite creepy...
I see what you mean...it's pretty surreal isn't it.
ReplyDeleteI really do love my prepackaged pancakes though.
I love this machine! It's wonderful. See how fast and accurate it is in handling the pancakes without damaging them.
ReplyDeleteOf course, in order to understand my enthusiasm, you would have to know that I spent most of my working life in high speed manufacturing engineering.
Cool.
ReplyDeleteWhere can I get one?
Getting robots to replace humans who are doing mind-numbing tasks is a good thing.
I cannot imagine what that job would have been like pre-robot.
Getting a person to act like a machine for hours on end and paying them minimum wage is a form of economic torture.
I wonder what the workers who were "replaced" by the robot are doing now with all their "free time." Perhaps reading Homer or Plato.
:-)
... or watching "Metropolis."
ReplyDeleteI for one welcome our new pancake picking overlords.
ReplyDeleteI did notice near the begining when the workers are checking for consistency that they were using ungloved hands to handle the pancakes. Yech!!
ReplyDeleteAnd who cleans the "queue" area for the pancakes?
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