Meet EveR1. South Korea's newest cyber citizen. The article that accompanies this image explains:
"She can hold a conversation, make eye contact, and express joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness."
She is the creation of Baeg Moon-hong, a senior researcher with the Division for Applied Robot Technology at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH). The science may not be enough to get an android, let alone a woman, on the moon, but it does continue to remind us that we are not alone. And tomorrow's leaders are coming from places like South Korea, India, and South Africa, places formly dismissed at merely third world.
We should spend more of our resources on preparing for the future and less on sustaining the present and vindicating the past.
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