Tuesday Map: We are the robots

Anyone know how to say “Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated,” in Japanese? Not suprisingly, the land of the rising sun blows away the competition on IEEE Spectrum‘s robot density map: I guess it’s impressive, but this sort of thing makes me very worried for them. (Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan)

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
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Anyone know how to say "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated," in Japanese? Not suprisingly, the land of the rising sun blows away the competition on IEEE Spectrum's robot density map:

Anyone know how to say “Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated,” in Japanese? Not suprisingly, the land of the rising sun blows away the competition on IEEE Spectrum‘s robot density map:

I guess it’s impressive, but this sort of thing makes me very worried for them.

(Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan)

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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