“Do you have an owner-granted name?”
“Lucy calls me ‘Robot’”.
“Are you serving Lucy Walker well?”
Robot reflected. “I am
learning. She seems to want me to stand
and wait, most of the time.”
Alpha responded, partly as if talking to himself. “That seems to be very common in reports from
others. It would appear that humans are
very different. Our function is to do.
Humans often seem content just to
be. In fact, they designed us to do
work for them, allowing them a great deal more time just to be.”
(from Robots Like
Blue, by Anthony J. Deeney)
7*/10. The full review is here.
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