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What Happens When We Let Tech Care for Our Aging Parents
- bitwize 9y agoUpon seeing the title I was reminded of Rōjin Z, an anime I watched about 20 years ago, whose McGuffin was an AI-equipped robotic hospital bed that could assimilate any machinery it needs to tend to its elderly patient (and eventually becomes a katamari-like monstrosity of destruction). So I expected a cautionary tale about runaway tech, dehumanization, etc. Instead I got... an early prototype of the book from The Diamond Age.
- yehosef 9y agoI thought it was going say "Soylent Green"
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoVery movingly written - I was immediately reminded of Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer[1] (the remote exploitation - or is it? - without the drone strikes). 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer