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Digidog was perhaps a little unlucky. A better public awareness campaign and a more careful selection of when to deploy it might have won people over.
In discussing this matter, a friend and I agreed – and we are not alone in holding this view – that there is plenty of scope for using Artificial Intelligence and robots such as Digidog to retrieve explosive devices, for example.
I must confess though that I am rarely at the front of the queue when it comes to adopting new technology. Indeed, a few friends have suggested that I am a bit of a technophobe, or a Luddite.