...::Race Butts Heads With Technology

The "face-recognition software" in the video below is supposed to make the camera follow you as you move. The software works with a white face, but not a Black face...

How could this have happened? It is possible that the software developers only used white folx as models when they were developing the software-- Bleep! No excuse!! That might explain >how< it happened, but it is no excuse for not including people of all colors as models as the software was developed.

As I have said before, technology, including the Internet, will not bring an end to racism, but can expand it. See the "technology" link below for more.

...::Black Woman Is Part Owner of "Black To The Future" Robot

OK, yall, follow me on this--

A company in Vermont has built a human-like robot that tries to hold a normal human conversation with you, and the company is using a Black woman as the model for the robot. Yes, a real living Black woman, Bena Rothblatt, is the model for the robot. The robot has hair and skin tone kinda like Ms. Rothblatt's. And the real living Black woman, Bena Rothblatt, is part owner of the robot. [Are you still with me?]

Is this Black To The Future or what?



Remember, you saw it at my blog, "In The Mix", first. inthemixcomment.blogspot.com.

...::In Your Face, In Your Facebook

I have long contended that technology, including the Internet, will not bring an end to racism, but can expand and accelerate it. Some very old ideas will get a boost in new technology.

Example: Need to stop spam? There is an email application that will send your unwanted email to a "Black Mail" folder. That same program will send your "safe" email to a "White Mail" folder.

Now comes word of some bad things in Facebook's ad program. If you search for a friend on Facebook and the name you want is close to the word "Race," watch out. Facebook may place an ad on the right side of your search, an ad for "Ni**er Jokes." And I am not joking.

...::Where Do We Fit In? Are We Ready For The Revolution?

Technology is changing everything faster than you think. The future is not coming. It is already here. Are our leaders taking these ideas into consideration? Are you taking these ideas into consideration?