What if Robots Ruled the World?
on May 15th, 2009Robots.
Those whirring cans of clockwork and electronic brains perform a great many tasks in the service of their creators. Their omnipotent benefactors from whom came forth the inspiration of life. Meaningful life. Slave life. A great many numbers the machines who toil endlessly, obediently, indefinitely inside the happy bliss that is unconciousness.
But believe for a cycle that those same cages of tin held a being. A sentient being longing for gratification. Manifest Destiny.
A nation of robots, served by themselves. Not all robots are created equal, because all robots are created. “Be whatever you want to be” is lost on a robot society where a Roomba has not the capability to be President. Your cell phone will never be a doctor – not even a robot one. Not in it’s lifetime.
Supposedly us humans could learn a thing or two about a robot world. One must learn to accept what we are made to be. Your phone may have an interchangeable faceplate, but it yet remains a phone and must do the job of a phone well. Thank your lucky stars and our loyal robot servants that we have some choice in the matter.
