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I’m guessing they think the answer is robots? Same answer for armies.
by ericd 2y ago
I’m guessing they think the answer is robots? Same answer for armies.
- RajT88 2y agoBut who maintains the robots! Lol
- idle_zealot 2y agoOther robots, duh! The real question is "why are humans even involved with this?"
- ericd 2y agoI'm imagining something like Solaria in Asimov's The Naked Sun (part of the Robot series). The world is divided up by a tiny human population, each with a huge estate with thousands of robots serving them.
- XorNot 2y agoSame idea comes up in The Foundation and Earth by Asimov.
- cjfd 2y agoThere is a joke that in a modern factory there is only a man and a dog. The man is only there to feed the dog and the dog is there to guard the equipment and make sure the man does not touch any of it.
- airstrike 2y agoIt's a job for Brion Brand, the mightiest weighlifter in the galaxy. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549867.Planet_of_No_Return https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549867.Planet_of_No_Ret...
- CamperBob2 2y agohttps://archive.org/details/e.-m.-forster-the-machine-stops_202008 https://archive.org/details/e.-m.-forster-the-machine-stops_...