Peter Weller was Robocop. Many of us have seen the movie at least once. I don't want to give the 1987 movie away, but Kenneth Chisholm wrote a short summary of the flick. "In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories."
Basically, Stallone is a robot cop/human who hunts down criminals in the end times and either arrests them or kills them, dependent on their reaction. It's a post-apocalyptic film with plenty of action. Check it out if you have an opportunity.
A brief note
The CoVid pandemic has turned our world topsy-turvy. What we never dreamed possible has emerged and ruined lives and economies all over the world. It has also divided the vaccinated from the unvaccinated, which I believe was the plan all along, not that China released the virus intentionally. Rather, world leaders were prepared long ago to usher in a new normal...but I digress.
Singapore
I both like Singapore and despise it at the same time. It's small, clean and rather friendly, but far too strict for my liking. It's actually legalistic. I mean, you can't chew gum? Weird!
But in this dystopian age, leave it to Singapore to bring about a new kind of crime prevention and control mechanism. It's rather eerie when I mull it over. Spooky and yet funny in other ways. If you guessed a robot that acts like RoboCop but without weapons (yet) you'd be right.
Destination dystopian Singapore
"Singapore has put two autonomous robots on trial to detect bad behaviour such as flouting of COVID-19 safety measures, smoking in prohibited areas and the improper parking of bicycles" (Singapore, 2021).
Xaxier is the new RoboCop. Can you believe it? "Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency...(ahem)..."said that during the three-week trial, the robots would be used for surveillance and displaying messages to educate the public on proper behaviour" (Singapore, 2021).
Educate. Yeah, right. More like dictate.
Meet Xavier, your "friendly" cop on the beat of central Singapore. It's RoboCop's Mini Me.
And kindly note the men in the image, defying what Xavier has been trained to do, namely, wear masks and disperse crowds of more than 5 people. Hypocrisy!
Folks, this is more government control (read tyranny) in action. One must wonder when Singapore's government will program Xavier (well, there's two of them) to detain, convict and administer a caning for what the powers construe as aberrant behavior. It seems to me that oppression is the real aberrant behavior.
And were this not enough of the old boot on the proverbial neck, Singapore plans to "have more than 200,000 police cameras by 2030" (Singapore, 2021).
You read that right - 200,000 cameras. Make of it what you will, but I suggest that George Orwell's Big Brother is watching the citizens of Singapore very closely.
The Philippines
In some ways this is humorous to me in that as societies we have brought it on ourselves for refusing to combat and otherwise speak up about tyranny.
On another humorous note, Xavier would never work in my country, the #Philippines. Nope!
Tito Bong or Tita Neneng, even Kuya Boy or Ate Baby Ko, would abduct Xavier and sell him on Facebook or dismantle him for parts for their Jeepney.
It's a crazy world in which we are trying to live.
Reference
"Singapore trials patrol robots to deter bad social behaviour." (2021, Sept.). Reuters. Retrieved from https://www.reuters.com/technology/singapore-trials-patrol-robots-deter-bad-social-behaviour-2021-09-06/#:~:text=Autonomous%20robot%20Xavier%20patrols%20a%20neighbourhood%20mall%20to,a%20three-week%20trial%20in%20Singapore%20September%206%2C%202021.
Singapur es cierto que es un país muy estricto que no te permiten masticar chicle no podría, me gustaría saber el destino y el éxito que lleguen a tener, pero por lo que veo ya nos estamos acercando al futuro que se veían en las películas cuando era chiquita, ese robot se parece al una película que ví hace muchos años La guerra de las Galaxias