Morality and humanity come into question as a robot, overwhelmed by the promise of his own potential, discovers meaning and purpose in a bloody showdown with ex-superheroes, dastardly villains, and lesbian justice warriors.
Genre: FICTION / Science Fiction / High TechJust released 26-1-18
“What exactly does it do?”
All eyes turned to the robot on the stage. Contrary to all the commotion, it didn’t look very impressive. One would have expected some life-like mechanoid that was indistinguishable from the people who built it and from those reporting. Unlike the old man who spoke on its behalf, this robot didn’t have skin and it wasn’t wearing clothes of any kind. It had no hair or eyebrows, and at best, its face could muster barely a handful of expressions. It hadn’t an inch of personality. It looked, at best, as if it were engineered from the drawings of a small child – a child with little to no imagination.
“Well?” asked The Reporter.
“He’s doing it,” said The Engineer.
All eyes fell back on the robot that was sitting lifeless on the stage.
“Doing what? It’s just sitting there. I don’t get it. We were expecting to be blown away. We were expecting something futuristic.”
“I’m sorry to disappoint there, but this is a present day robot.”
“Yeah sure, but this thing looks like a couple of old washing machines stacked together. I don’t see it. What am I missing?”
“Perspective.”
“Then give me some. Make it do something. Make it do something that only a person would do.”
You could see the frustration on The Engineer’s face – having to defend himself to a loud mouthed bully; someone who would no doubt defend her own ignorance by labelling the science she did not understand as stupid and irrelevant.
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Spanish
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Already translated.
Translated by Nicolas Campos
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