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Gibson Robot Guitar

Not being much of a musician myself you'd think the hub bub about the newly announced, self-tuning, Gibson Robot Guitar would have passed me right by. Not so! Obviously I have some issues with the fusion of technology and musicianship when it comes to digitally enhancing a performance but even more so I have a problem with the fact that they called this Robot Guitar. Seriously? I realize they are just going with the text book definition of the word by saying "this does human tasks automatically!" but the word 'Robot' means so much more these days. At the very least they could have put some sort of signifigant number or descriptor in the name - i.e. Mega Robot Guitar 9000 or Ultra Shredder Automator Robot Guitar 600X. If this is the future at least make it sound like the future.