WTF, this isn't supposed to be some parody of a dystopia!? It reads exactly like "the robot overlords may on occasion drain some blood for lubricant, but I don't have to pay for Netflix so it's pretty cool".
"Oh, I don't even need the intelligence to do the home economics involved in shopping. A computer algorithm tells me what tools to use for whatever it is I'm doing". I'm surprised you're doing ANYTHING, you dumb monkey, and aren't just letting a robot do it for you.
I'm sure if we made the right technology for them, non-humans could use robots to do things and communicate, too.
Lazy, lazy apes. THAT is going to be what brings a technological species down before it can spread its filthy self to infest other planets ...
Meanwhile, I see Hunger4Words (Stella) and Hey, Daisy! and see MENTALLY ACTIVE CREATURES WHO LIKE TO LEARN.
The authoritarians think that their ambition and ruthlessness is a super-power. They think that they can a) be in power forever, b) never be challenged, c) be regarded as loving parents of society, if only they can infantilize the general population and burn every ounce of ambition out of them.
WTF, this isn't supposed to be some parody of a dystopia!?
It was quite a day when I realized that utopian fiction and dystopian fiction aren't two different types of fiction. They're almost identical - the only difference is the point-of-view character's place in the hierarchy.
WTF, this isn't supposed to be some parody of a dystopia!? It reads exactly like "the robot overlords may on occasion drain some blood for lubricant, but I don't have to pay for Netflix so it's pretty cool".
And the LAZINESS.
"Oh, I don't even need the intelligence to do the home economics involved in shopping. A computer algorithm tells me what tools to use for whatever it is I'm doing". I'm surprised you're doing ANYTHING, you dumb monkey, and aren't just letting a robot do it for you.
I'm sure if we made the right technology for them, non-humans could use robots to do things and communicate, too.
Lazy, lazy apes. THAT is going to be what brings a technological species down before it can spread its filthy self to infest other planets ...
Meanwhile, I see Hunger4Words (Stella) and Hey, Daisy! and see MENTALLY ACTIVE CREATURES WHO LIKE TO LEARN.
The authoritarians think that their ambition and ruthlessness is a super-power. They think that they can a) be in power forever, b) never be challenged, c) be regarded as loving parents of society, if only they can infantilize the general population and burn every ounce of ambition out of them.
It was quite a day when I realized that utopian fiction and dystopian fiction aren't two different types of fiction. They're almost identical - the only difference is the point-of-view character's place in the hierarchy.
This year has taught me that most people will gladly live in a dystopia if they think they will be "safe" living in one.