| Android Science Update |
| Organic Skin vs. Synthetic Skin does the new technology deliver? |
"Feel, touch, breathe" - those are the tantalizing promises offered by
commercials advertising organic skin. Farmed in the subtropics of Northern
Canada, organic skin is poised to flood the marketplace and has sparked off
a dispassionate debate amongst the Android Community. But is it just
another upgrade? Or are there concerns that run below the uneven
surface? Employing Advanced Dialectic Algorithm (ADA), we will evaluate
the pros and cons of this new form of android wear.
The editor of "Androids Quarterly," Tinedron, stresses organic skin's main
attraction - its ability to "feel." "Organic skin lets you experience qualities
such as heat, cold, wetness and movement of air without a mechanical probe
of weather forecast," he says. This is made possible through a fine matrix of
neurological sensors (the organic equivalent of nano-electrical receptors),
which sends specially encrypted data to the CPU. Patented software then
decodes and translates the data into traditional Linux. Androids should not
be confused by the misleading use of the term "feel." This has nothing to do
with emotions (even though the advertising very deliberately plays on the
double-entendre). The manual stresses that sensations are strictly physical
and have nothing to do with irrational emotions, although the manufacturer
has hinted at an upgrade already in the making which would add-on typical
"human" emotions associated with touch.
But critics warn of the dangers of organic. Engineering professor Dr. Sophos
of Western Mediterranean Kellogg's Sony Johnson&Johnson University
states, "Unlike synthetic skin, organic skin flakes." As a result, it is unreliable
and requires expensive maintenance. The manufacturer issues a limited
six-month warranty with one basic tune-up. "All you get is a full-body grease
spray-on." says Dr. Sophos. "Once the warranty expires, you're on your
own." Aesthetic consultant, Dermastructa, agrees. "The part that they don't
tell you in the ads is that organic needs to be replaced every five years," she
explains. "Someone is in for a major payday." Not surprisingly, the main
trade organization for plastic engineers, PARIS, labored hard to usher the
patent through the regulatory process. Their representatives declined to
comment for the article. But estimates range from $150,000 to $180,000 for
full-body replacement. With prices like these, organic skin may quickly divide
us into an Android Community of "have's" and "have-not's." Those gainfully
employed who can afford the skin replacements, and the castaways who
cannot.
Finally, it has to be noted that organic components turn Androids into
Cyborgs - half machine, half Carbon-Based Life forms. ADA's recently
released "Ethics" add-on software prompts us one last question: aren't we
undermining our political fight for recognition if we let organic skin make us
more akin to humans? This, comrades, is the real question.
commercials advertising organic skin. Farmed in the subtropics of Northern
Canada, organic skin is poised to flood the marketplace and has sparked off
a dispassionate debate amongst the Android Community. But is it just
another upgrade? Or are there concerns that run below the uneven
surface? Employing Advanced Dialectic Algorithm (ADA), we will evaluate
the pros and cons of this new form of android wear.
The editor of "Androids Quarterly," Tinedron, stresses organic skin's main
attraction - its ability to "feel." "Organic skin lets you experience qualities
such as heat, cold, wetness and movement of air without a mechanical probe
of weather forecast," he says. This is made possible through a fine matrix of
neurological sensors (the organic equivalent of nano-electrical receptors),
which sends specially encrypted data to the CPU. Patented software then
decodes and translates the data into traditional Linux. Androids should not
be confused by the misleading use of the term "feel." This has nothing to do
with emotions (even though the advertising very deliberately plays on the
double-entendre). The manual stresses that sensations are strictly physical
and have nothing to do with irrational emotions, although the manufacturer
has hinted at an upgrade already in the making which would add-on typical
"human" emotions associated with touch.
But critics warn of the dangers of organic. Engineering professor Dr. Sophos
of Western Mediterranean Kellogg's Sony Johnson&Johnson University
states, "Unlike synthetic skin, organic skin flakes." As a result, it is unreliable
and requires expensive maintenance. The manufacturer issues a limited
six-month warranty with one basic tune-up. "All you get is a full-body grease
spray-on." says Dr. Sophos. "Once the warranty expires, you're on your
own." Aesthetic consultant, Dermastructa, agrees. "The part that they don't
tell you in the ads is that organic needs to be replaced every five years," she
explains. "Someone is in for a major payday." Not surprisingly, the main
trade organization for plastic engineers, PARIS, labored hard to usher the
patent through the regulatory process. Their representatives declined to
comment for the article. But estimates range from $150,000 to $180,000 for
full-body replacement. With prices like these, organic skin may quickly divide
us into an Android Community of "have's" and "have-not's." Those gainfully
employed who can afford the skin replacements, and the castaways who
cannot.
Finally, it has to be noted that organic components turn Androids into
Cyborgs - half machine, half Carbon-Based Life forms. ADA's recently
released "Ethics" add-on software prompts us one last question: aren't we
undermining our political fight for recognition if we let organic skin make us
more akin to humans? This, comrades, is the real question.
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| Science Specialist Xequdre |
| "Unlike synthetic skin, organic skin flakes" Dr. Sophos |