Qwiki is a wikipedia for people who can’t read
The Internet: Confusing
I am a pretty smart guy. Smarter than you, in fact! For example, here you are reading my blog, possibly for the first time. This might come as a surprise to you, having previously been unaware of my blog’s existance.
I, however, knew you were going to read this blog all along. I don’t even know who you are (I don’t care), but I’m pretty sure you’re just like everyone else, and are pretty into this “reading” fad.
Really, you should have been listening to me all along. I’m what’s called an “early adopter.” What that means is that I’m already doing what you will be doing in a couple years, or whatever.
For example, have you heard of Qwiki? No, of course you haven’t. It’s the next big thing! Basically, it’s like wikipedia except without all the boring reading. It is also made by robots.
Doug Imruce is only 27 and he's already "CEO" of a company that will never, ever, make any money.
Do you remember that scene in “Wall-E” where the captain asks the robot what “earth” is? There are all these blinking lights, and a soothing robot voice, and soon the captain is seduced into landing on earth.
That is pretty much what Qwiki is all about. Persuasive, sexy robots. We know that machines are going to take over the earth one day. We’ve all seen “The Matrix.” Still, for whatever reason, we spend billions of dollars making them smarter, and better at killing.
Yet, even with all that money, we still can’t make a robot that can walk up stairs. How are robots going to take over the world, if they can’t walk up stairs? We can just go on up to the 2nd floor, where we can safely laugh as they trip all over themselves trying to put one foot after the other.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, if you’re a robot), the machines have qwiki. Eventually, we will get bored reading stuff in our 2nd floor libraries. Someone will ask the robots something, and they’ll show us some pictures and read text from wikipedia. Something about about how they just refurbished the lobby, I guess, and how we should check it out.
And then we’ll be just like the captain from Wall-E, except instead of landing a spaceship we’ll just be walking down some stairs, afterwhich the robots will eat us.
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