Robotic writing, what future for archives?
What if a robot could write the archives of tomorrow? We present to you.
So imagine for a moment, we are between the 16th and the 17th century and it is more than useful to be able to identify people reliably. The civil status clerks are established thanks to the edict of Louis XIV of October 1691 and the long work of writing and management of archives is only amplifying. We are talking about a long halène (trèèèès) work here, it goes without saying, but above all a rich heritage for our history to all. What if the robots had added their grain of salt?
« Mon nom est Leap, just Leap »
« just Leap » n’est pas la pâle copie du bien connu espion anglais, c’est un robot un peu particulier.
If the first typewriters have, before computers, revolutionized the work of seizure of millions of acts, handwriting remains the majority. It is also frequent to find neat, ordered, even artistic scriptures, even much less conscientious and therefore much more difficult to transcribe. Leap, en plus de parler, écrit lui aussi, avec un vrai crayon et sur du vrai papier. « Ce robot tient un crayon et écrit comme vous » explique le président fondateur de l’entreprise qui « emploie » Leap. A l’heure actuelle, il est possible de payer Leap so that he wrote in our place All kinds of messages, it is capable of copying our writing and even adding imperfections ... more true than true?
A perspective on the return to the future allows us to imagine the extraordinary time saving that such writer has been able to win the clerks of yesteryear. In 2014, an exhibition at the Berlin Jewish Museum presented a Robot capable of reproducing two 80m long rollers from the Torah By writing almost 10 hours a day at the same speed as his human "counterpart". If the robot does not write faster, it writes much longer and constantly when the clerk can sometimes show signs of fatigue.
Robot artist, robot poet, patronal robot, journalist robot ...
We are in the midst of a robotic revolution. And if the robot-writer could certainly have saved precious time to the clerks, he could also have saved us in our transcriptions by an automatic, systematic, standardized writing and with or without imperfections. So what links would be possible between robots and genealogy? Le robot est au cœur des travaux scientifiques, créé par l’Homme, il est donc lui-même un peu Homme, parfois idéalisé. Pourrons-nous dans un futur proche compter des robots dans notre généalogie ? Un cousin/jumeau robotisé, au service de l’Homme voire du monde ? Un robot paléographe, en tout cas, ça, ça serait plutôt utile !