Machines and robots may well be a boon for the UN
As a person who worked at the UN in the 70s and 80s with no modern technology (no PCs, cell phones, emails, etc.), I was delighted to read the Sunday Times article which pointed out that the UN “is steadily zooming into the field of fast-paced, cutting-edge digital technology where humans may one day be replaced with machines and robots”. A former SecretaryGeneral (SG) once said that SG really stands for scape goat (since all of the world’s political problems were piled up on him). Perhaps in 50 years time the UN be headed by a mechanical robot who will not be answerable even to the Security Council and remain blameless?
In last week’s article, the author, Thalif Deen, a long-time (Sri Lankan) journalist at the UN wrote “The United Nations says it has also been using unarmed and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, in peacekeeping operations …”
The same author who scathingly exposed the sex scandals among UN’s Peace-keepers around the world, in his 4.11.18 Sunday Times article titled “108 Lankan soldiers in Haiti sex scandal” apparently forgot to mention that it would be advantageous for the UN -- both economically and physically -- to deploy sex robots in the UN’s Peace-Keeping Operations.
I am sure high tech machines and robots can also save a lot of money in the long run.
The UN should immediately invest in a few hundred sex robots, currently being manufactured by China and Japan, (now used in more than 12 countries and regions all over the world) and fly them to UN’s Peace-keeping forces:
1) To help the UN from facing rape & sex allegations at those stations;
2) To prevent UN peacekeepers from contracting STD - even HIV/AIDS;
3) To prevent human sex trafficking - mostly minors (a UN goal); If properly managed, the UN can recover the costs within a few months - even make it profitable.
By the way, those countries that manufacture sex robots may even donate them cost-free to the UN-development aid in a novel format.
A win-win situation for all.