mun-ki biz-nes /mon·key busi·ness/ noun
1. the wasting of time, or effort, on some foolish project
"This munkibiznes is nothiing but a WOMWOT. A waste of money, waste of time!"
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In the end wIll technology fail us?
excerpted from MIT Technology Review
The Knightscope K5 is a crime-fighting robot. Its cone-shaped body gliding on hidden wheels is straight out of Dr. Who. The robot is designed to discourage wrongdoers with its array of cameras—but not everyone is happy sharing public space with the five-foot, 300-pound security cones. For one thing, given that a K5 ran over a toddler, they seem capable of breaking Isaac Asimov’s first law of robotics—no robot may injure a human. But the real problem is that humans don’t really like them. Schoolchildren taunt them, drunks topple them, and homeless people smear their lenses with barbecue sauce. “It is your duty to destroy these things if you see them,” tweeted one man during a protest against the robots in San Francisco. Finally, there came some watery schadenfreude when a K5 rolled itself into the fountain of an office and retail complex in Washington, D.C. “We were promised flying cars; instead we got suicidal robots,” said one office worker, whose photos of the keeled-over robot went viral on the Web. Knightscope called the accidental drowning “an isolated event.”
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- “This Crime-Fighting Security Robot Drowned in Mere Inches of Water, Much to the Internet’s Amusement” Time
- “A Robot Security Guard Is Terrifying Homeless People in San Francisco” (New York Post)
