Uncanny Valley

It means that it took 40 years for the world to catch up.
Mashahiro Mori: Yes, I agree. This may not get across to people overseas, but I think of myself as the dog in the story "Hanasaka Jiisan." [In this Japanese folk story, a dog barks to let his owners know where to dig, and when they dig they find gold.] I seem to have a good nose for sniffing out interesting things, but I don't have the skill to dig them up. That's why I bark "Dig here!" and then other people will dig and find treasure. Or, if people don't dig, I dig a little bit by myself. Then people come in like a gold rush. The uncanny valley was just one of the things that I sensed.
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