Re: Robots and co

Michelle Bottorff <mbottorff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina Hall <Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mainly I'm just curious what 'robots and co' others may have
made up, and why, and how that influenced the setting or emerged
from the setting as a consequence.

I seem to be astonishingly short on robots.

Heh.

In Black Flag small utility robots do get used, but when not in
use they are tucked away, much like a vacuum cleaner would be.
Nobody *talks* to them. Also Silver is shown beating up on what
is clearly an android designed to be used as a combat training
aid, but you never see androids hanging out with the crew.

Sounds very reasonable, natural to me. (Much better than setting
them up as supposedly alife, and then probing that subject.)

In the Cultivator universe (Bambi et al.) you get similar
semi-intelligent tools. No artificial people have showed up as
of yet.

It just isn't one of the themes I've been exploring, I guess.

I wouldn't be interested in it as 'exploring themes' either, that's
just not my kind of thing.

(I've just put them in as part of the setting, and as a natural
consequence the discussion in the backround, about machine versus
alife, because that's what the _people_ would do. Rant and lobby.
Plus, it's different to the 'robots revolt'; my 'androids' don't
care about the discussion, or being 'liberated'. I like doing things
different.)

--
"Being raised by the secret order of not-being-very-informative
doesn't mean you can't tell us."
-- Ranes, Magic Earth 7/6
Excerpts at: <http://home.htp-tel.de/fkoerper/ath/athintro.htm>
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