The Internet of Robots

Internet Roboticsin ten years the Internet will host a trillion robots

using fully synthetic software and systemsevery Internet robot is uniquely different

each robot has an audience of oneall are fully personalized tools or toys

Internet robots work well together in teamsthey’re good at looking, listening, and learning

they constantly evolve and they’re easy to cloneso Internet robots will multiply like rabbits

The Old Internet of Mediathis is the familiar Internet we all use today

Email, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, et. al.it’s an Internet of isolated information islands

it’s the Internet handcrafted for hackers by hackers

The New Internet of Mechanizationthe Internet of Things plus the Internet of Robots

gradually replacing the Internet we use todaygreat new tools and toys built by everyone for all

using state of the art automation science

What are Internet Robots?they’re not solid robots that make and move thingsthey’re soft robots that model and manage things

they mechanize the minutia of modern lifethey’re mass-customized, micro-scale automata

soft and solid robots team up really wellInternet robots develop and deploy your robots

and they help you design your personalized robotsInternet robots processes plain language & plain logic

so they’re always as smart as a pencil and paper

Using the Internet of Robotsthe serious game of real life ported to the Internetautomating all aspects of your labor & leisure lives

it sounds like Siri, it looks like World of Warcraftit works with perceptual automation (e.g. Kinect)

it’s your own completely personalized Internetwith your own staff of specialized robotstuned and tailored for your unique life

much less Internet effort, much more success

Internet Robots are Intimateyour personal robots constantly model your life

by monitoring your personal audio & video streamsplus your kinematic and physiological sensors

in order to learn what you do and how you do itand provide perfect recall for all personal informationthey gauge the geometry of everything automatically

they know what’s going on around you at all timesthey know what you’re doing & help you get it done

they know what you need and when you need itthey alert you to significant obstacles & opportunities

Robots Maximize Internet Collective Intelligenceall of us together are far smarter than any of usthat’s why the Internet of Robots is really smart

islands limit Internet collective intelligence todaybut the Internet of Robots has no limits

so everyone will have better choicesand everyone will share in collective success

Internet Robotics Technologyno bullshit (e.g. artificial intelligence)computer science is mostly irrelevant

hard science and high technology are sufficientbuilding on a mature $100B technology base

automation engineering (design, defense, etc.)old, reliable, pick and shovel technologiesboring, workable, no big breakthroughs

old time-tested, trustworthy tools and techniques

Internet Robots Are Built With Synthetic Softwareautomata synthesis has been routine for decades

complex engineered system synthesis at vast scalestool suppliers include Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys

hardware is just frozen software after allsynthetic spaghetti structures are really smart

total automated testing of subject matter modelsbut synthesis works only for mechanization software

because it’s automatic rather than algorithmicnote that algorithmic synthesis is unworkableso media processing requires manual coding

Strong Plain Language Specification Technologysoft robots are synthesized from plain languageplain English first, other major languages later

entirely obvious to middle school studentswe all have a Ph.D. in plain language

the key enabling technology for Internet robotsborrowed from the publishing and defense industries

based on a century of mature prior artfar superior to soft programming languagesstrong enough for the principled professionse.g. management, medicine, law, engineering

Internet Robotics Infrastructurebased on existing Internet standards and practices

mostly scalable NoSQL databases (Redis, Cassandra)mass-scale asynchronous incremental automata

vast sparse automata structures and spacesmostly schemaless modeling, schemas will be rare

models are shared via big data & document enginessynthesis generates JavaScript now, bytecodes later

robots are disposable rather than durablemost robot code runs only once, much never does

Digital Media on the New Internetstill lots of digital media on the new Internetbut all information islands will be eliminated

so no need for big websites or big search enginesprecision specialized search with unlimited findability

mass federation of media sourcing and searchingautomated supply chains end information overloadwith radically better media searching and sharing

institutional IT will decline and disappearagile enterprise automation is the replacement

Engineered Synthetics are the Future of Softwareeveryone agrees that software is eating the worldbut software is still a primitive handicraft industry

now a quantum leap in quality & quantity is requiredwe need precision software mass modeling systemswe need cheap mass custom automated production

we need software based on solid engineering sciencethat's why synthetics are the inevitable future

all that’s required is retargeting mature technologiesInternet robots are the synthetics technology driver

Hacker Capitalism Will Declineprimitive handicraft code can’t compete with robotsengineered synthetics are vastly superior in all wayshandcrafted code severely limits Internet innovation

hacking is truly dangerous on the new Internet

Automation Capitalism Will Dawnrobots will reinvent & reinvigorate Internet capitalismnew economic advantages of specialization, not scaleInternet industrialization with interchangeable parts

a trillion lines of perfect new custom code daily

Executive Summaryislands are the fatal flaw in the Internet of Media

so mechanization is the only workable Internet futurerobots are the simple, easy, cheap way to this futurea new Internet built by reusing mature technologies

a radically bigger, better, cheaper, faster Internetpowered by familiar plain language and plain logicbuilt by engineers and MBAs using true high tech

all human mass systems will migrate to the Internetand these will be thoroughly mechanized with robots

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But It’s the Wrong Kind of Software!that’s what the software experts will tell you

not the sort of software done on the Internet todaybut it’s the ideal sort for Internet industrialization

mysterious to hackers and computer scientistsbut routine for decades in automation engineering

old Internet things must be done in new waysbut mainly these will be better ways

with a far better user experienceand much less user effort

A True High Technology of Softwaresurprising to most hackers and computer scientists

but old hat to many automation engineersa complete working mechanics of practical software

enterprise, economic, & engineering mechanismsas well as all kinds of familiar everyday mechanisms

complete coverage of principles and phenomenawith testable engineering science theories and toolsbut not applicable to antique handcrafted softwarebecause soft pattern hacking models are a mystery

The Internet of Robots Innovation CycleInternet of Islands innovation is costly & lengthy

but Internet of Robots innovation is quick and easyin much the same way as cooking innovationincremental innovation costs are nearly zero

minor innovations take just a few minutesthe minimum viable innovation audience is one

innovation lifecycle costs are negligiblesince all Internet robots are unique

so innovation is continuous, evolutionary

Plain Language is Intrinsically Mechanisticbecause the minutia of modern life is mechanisticdiverse sorts of familiar subject matter mechanics

with about a million subject matter specialtiesplain language = practical + personal language

practical language is grounded in physical realityso its meaning is always entirely mechanistic

some personal language lacks strong mechanicsbut this language can be strengthened sufficientlyand much personal language has strong mechanics

Plain Language and Plain Logic are Sufficientthe only tools we have for modeling modern life

they’re mass technologies evolving for ten millenniaand they’re always perfect for all practical purposedue to the invisible hand of information economics

that’s why there’s no need for private languagesthe sole exception is handcrafted software hackingnow plain language has been ported to the Internetand this is the beginning of Internet industrializationbecause everyone’s now an Internet robotics expert

Robots Provide Unlimited Internet Scalabilitysomeday the Internet will become a single vast robot

made up of layered levels of smaller robotsbecause the modern world is one vast mechanismmade up of layered levels of smaller mechanismsin this way robots reflect the reality of modern life

robots are subject matter state mechanics automataand these are always strictly additive at all scalesso there will be no isolated Internet robot islands

handcrafted software models are symbol automatathese are never additive so each is an Internet island

Engineering Automata Theorythe solid engineering science behind Internet robots

fully unifies all sorts of subject matter mechanicsthroughout all basic, natural, and applied sciencesabout a hundred basic kinds of automata modelsall share the same differential, dimensional logicthe plain logic of plain language is mechanistic

so this logic is readily reducible to automata modelssynthesis turns automata models into software

with perfect plain language documentationand total automated test coverage

Internet of Robots Standardizationplain language itself is the only standard requiredthis is the strongest modeling standard possibleit’s always the beginning of all other standards

we all use plain language in exactly the same wayand that’s exactly why it always works so well

plain language is implementation independentso plain language models never become obsoleteand they work with all existing Internet standardsthis solves the ISO layer 7 standardization problem

that’s the thorny application layer problem

The Internet of Robots Enables the Internet of Thingsthe Internet of Things hasn’t happened yet

just billions of digital things on the Internet so far nearly all these things are isolated Internet islands

with vast untapped automation value potentialbut all automation applications are special cases

and handcrafting the required software is impracticalso mass custom software industrialization is required

and Internet robots are the perfect solutiondigital things and robots are a match made in heaven they’re the Internet of Mechanization building blocks

Robot Specialization is Simplethere are no start from scratch robots on the Internet

all new robots evolve from some existing robotoften from one of thousands of stock starter robotsthen each is specialized for some particular purposeusing familiar plain language visual or verbal models

this is how robots are precisely personalizedall robots work with many other robotsso all robots must constantly coevolve

and each is frequently regenerated

A Plain Logic Refresherrecall the elements of exposition from middle school

these elements are rigor, rationale, and rhetoricrigor: quantity and quality

rationale: who, what, where, when, why, howrhetoric: compare, contrast, classify, and composethese elements expose plain language structures

they’re strong mechanistic meaning structuresa simple logic easily testable in the laboratory of life

they’re practical logics based on physical realityshared by all the hard sciences and high technologies

Strong Specification Systemsstrong specification has a simple acid test:

can you always say all you mean & mean all you say,without ever saying too much or tool little,

with safely and simplicity for any subject matter?plain language is the only workable way to do this

for any and all specialized practical purposesso all other specification systems are very soft including all possible programming languages

plus all other purely symbolic specification systems

The Internet of Robots is Asynchronousthe Internet is already becoming asynchronousnode.js and browser code are primary examples

but spreadsheets are asynchronous automata tooInternet robots are nested asynchronous automata

all robots share strong mass scale world modelshow the world works and how we work in the world

these are plain language and plain logic modelsso you can always see what your robots are doingno need for obscure artificial logics and languages

Will Robots Lead to an Internet Singularity?robots are based on automation technology, not AIrobots are powered by our collective intelligence

just like everything else in the modern worldrobots are new Internet collective intelligence toolsand in this way they’ll help the world get far smarter

but robots can’t be smarter than a pencil & paperthat’s the fundamental specification technology limitthe singularity is a science fiction superintelligencethat requires a totally new specification technology

and even the AI folks have no idea what this might be