A thought question: What need have we for brains or muscles?
As I was sitting in our living room looking out the window, my eyes focused on a young man with a leaf blower. I was really fascinated with watching him trying to corral leaves into one pile. After a long while, I began to laugh. I thought about when we were younger and my brothers and sister and I would go out and rake our back yard and end up with a huge pile of leaves and then jump into them or hide under them. Oh, those were the fun times. This person lost out on the exercise of raking those leaves in less time than that machine took to blow them into a pile.
Did you notice I said “rake” those leaves? It is sad that man has created wonder machines that do all the work and rob us of health building exercises. There is a machine for everything that we don’t have time to do ourselves, which means we can add more activities and then need more machines. There is a robot for everything.
Less personal contact with children – Therapy robots are already used in classrooms to help kids with autism learn social skills, but they’re also used to help kids who aren’t on the spectrum learn art and other subjects. Other personal assistant robots currently in use in China can help your toddlers re-read their favorite book for the 100th time. Through a tablet, you can check in on your 3–8-year-old kids with a baby-cam feature.
No need to cook meals – One robotics company is in the midst of developing a robotic cook that can cook with the flair of a celebrity chef, reproducing the dexterity and skill of human cooks and will come with touchscreen controls and a glass enclosure that will protect your kitchen from any stray splashes from the cooking process.
No need to tend your garden – If you don’t have a naturally green thumb, robots can help. One open-source farming robot can do everything but harvest your vegetables: it plants seeds, waters them on a schedule, monitors their growth, and destroys weeds. You just log into the video game-like app and arrange your plants in the desired configuration, and the robot does the rest. On a smaller scale, smart sprinkler systems can monitor weather and soil conditions to figure out just how much water each of the plants in your yard need at any given time, and distribute it accordingly.
No need to carry your groceries – A robot butler that’s part hoverboard, part assistant with facial recognition, speech recognition, autonomous navigation, and more can follow you around the house, or you can ride it around the yard. And unlike smaller personal robots, it can carry things for you, ferrying your grocery bags to the kitchen.
No need to keep people company – For people who can’t get out of the house easily, there are robots, like interactive dogs, cats, and seals that make noise and respond to touch much like real animals would. Other robots specifically designed for older adults who live alone can detect falls, remind users of appointments, and connect to video-chat programs and social media.
No need to keep track of your health – Health robots can keep you feeling your best, even if you’re not great at remembering your medications. One pill-dispensing robot can hook up to your activity trackers and even re-order your vitamins and medications when you’re about to run out. You can ask the cute pill-bot health questions and set it up to recognize the faces of you and the other members of your family.
Excerpts from: http://mentalfloss.com/article/88813/10-surprising-ways-robots-can-make-your-life-easier
The luxuries of this world are destroying us. God has given us bodies that have been designed to work, but the most used part of our body is often the finger which pushes the buttons! Why not
- have more personal contact with our children/family
- tend to our own gardens
- cook our own meals
- carry our own groceries
- keep track of our own health
- visit the shut-ins
Exercise and keep fit the body that God has given you. It is true that if you don’t use it, you will lose the use of it. The devil is trying to destroy us physically, mentally and spiritually. God said in Genesis 3:19: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” There are very many who do not do much sweating!
Do not follow after the world and destroy yourself through the luxuries of living with a button and a finger to push it. Choose to use your own body and strength and not rely on a machine.