10-23-2019, 10:39 AM
I see us doing everything possible to reserve to ourselves the tasks that we like doing (like creative activities) while abandoning drudgery to machines. For good reasons we call mechanical workers "robots", practically slaves. Think of the robot "Rosie" in The Jetsons... "she" functions as a maid.
I have my idea for a story (unless someone like Bradbury or Asimov got it first) in which robot proles learn to read and think between the lines... and one of the books that they take to "heart" is the Communist Manifesto. "Workers of the World, unite!", you know.
I have my idea for a story (unless someone like Bradbury or Asimov got it first) in which robot proles learn to read and think between the lines... and one of the books that they take to "heart" is the Communist Manifesto. "Workers of the World, unite!", you know.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.