This speech by David Cameron represents a landmark moment. It's the usual flim-flam which can be easily anticipated, with the NHS being constantly used (and abused) as a political football by alternating red and blue teams, but it's the first time that I've ever heard a British politician mention "robotics". And that's robotics in the true sense, as opposed to the comical/derogatory sense of something like "my opponent's actions were robotic".
Such a statement proves that robotics is moving out of the shadows and into the scope of the popular consciousness, as the internet was in 1994 or computers were in the early 1980s.
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"Nanotechnology" too!
Indeed. Possibly they might have talked about these things in lesser known fora, but this is the first time I've heard of robotics and nanotechnology being mentioned in a prominent speech intended for the masses. It shows that these topics are beginning to appear on the political radar.
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