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    Computopia: A Future Where Computers Teach, Then Beat, Then Heal Japanese Kids

    Welcome to Computopia—a 40-year old Japanese vision of how robots might become a part our everyday lives. Complied by Shōnen Sunday magazine, these illustrations depict robots performing surgeries, teaching in a classroom and beating kids for their insolence.

    Interestingly enough, there are several technologies depicted in the series that have actually come to fruition (although they are heavily cloaked in a LSD meets The Jetsons meets Lost in Space kind of style). See if you can pick them out of the gallery posted at Pink Tentacle. [Pink Tentacle]


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