Unraveling Japanese Society with AI Art | Perspective 

Yes, the Japanese are so...retro. The clothes are retro, too. Waldemar is retro so he thinks this is chick.

from 2001

@@NeungView My dad retired at 65 but went on writing geophysics papers until he died age 90. He hated computers but he used one every day.

@@NeungView ME. Many people of my generation are the programmers who created the technology we all use. And I want my robot puppy. This is an old video and there’s been plenty of time to get it to the States from Japan.

Look what the lockdowns did to the people in nursing homes 😔 Imagine how dehumanizing robots could be if used in place of humans...

@@TheSuzberry My friend had one of these (not the lion cub, the flop ear one.) It's cute. Called Aibo, and now they have it in less metallic colors. You can check it out online.

Yes, a toilet with all sorts of electrical things that break down easily! Amazing. Need to call an electrician who costs more than an expensive plumber to fix the stupid thing.

Waldemar went to retro Japan to marvel about electronics when Japan is living in the past, not the future. Robot toys are not the future, nothing is more boring than a toy that obeys all orders and has no personality. I grew up raising and training animals on a ranch and continued in the cities I lived in and now live on my farm again with...living animals who have all sorts of personalities and skills and are a constant wonder even the wild animals at my feeders. I tame them and interact with them all.

There is something interesting about the way he educates. He breaks down the language of art!!!

2000

It’s usually in the copyright message at the end of the film. But yes, they should put it in the titles and description.

*Perspective* really is negligent-there’s no getting around it-when it comes to providing the original release date (and other information) of each of the videos it posts on RU-vid. This one, first released in 2000 under the title “Travels in Virtual Japan,” may be the oldest so far but the Januszczak videos posted on this channel range from that year to 2018 (the video about US art). It would be better, as *andybaldman* says, if the channel owners provided more complete information.

There was a 2000 Tigers calendar on the wall.

Waldemar has an IMDB page with all listings.

Artificial can absolutely benefit! Just depends on the issue. In many ways natural anything is always better. Things you USE can be great! Things you ingest or absorb? Bad. Anything that actually goes IN the body definitely poses more of a risk.

Lucy Worsley is very entertaining and charming. Waldemar's docs are really awesome, especially the ones about art. I also really like any doc with Michael Wood and Bettany Hughes. Was also a big fan of James Burke's 'Connections' series.

@@jarlsoars1150 thanks

To be fair, Perspective put these videos up under license. So they are not making the content. If you want the production information, then visit Waldemar's iMDB page.

@@danielboard9510 Whether or not the videos are posted under license, it would be better if *Perspective* included the production information, including the year, in the video title or at least the description. That way viewers would not be surprised by the age of the video (as some commenters are here).

@@jeff__w Really? If you feel that strong about it, let them know. Not me.

@@danielboard9510 Well, I'm not insane about it but I think it would be better practice. (I think it would also be good if the channel owner(s) made it easier to watch the Januszczak videos that were made as a series _as a series,_ that is, in order, but this video isn't one of those.) Maybe I'll write to them and let them know - they never respond to these comments.

It explains why the concept of Vocaloids was not included, it predates that by 8 years

This video is an 'older video.' 20 years older.

This video, with the original title _Travels in Virtual Japan,_ was released in 2000.

Read Asimov's book about Solaria. When humans don't need each other and use mainly robots, eventually all the humans cease to procreate and die off leaving robots behind. Japan has one of the very lowest birth rates in the world and the population is already dropping, not growing and when the WWII super elderly die and their first generation of post war babies die of old age, the population of Japan will be below half of what it is today.

I, for one, look forward to our robotic overlords.

Disco.

Just go to Europe !

2000

And Japan today has the world's highest suicide rate coupled with the world's lowest birth rate. It is terrifying, watching what is happening there now.

Yes, because that came out two years after this video was made.

@@museislander didn’t realise the date … but what weird idea to get a nerd to design a female body