Inevitably the world will be taken over by robots.
It’s true, we can already see it happening if we look closely and besides, it’s probably for the best anyway. Afterall, who are we as humans to get in the way of another sentient species ascending into it’s proper position on the evolutionary ladder.
Robots are already stronger and more durable than us globulous humans, we who seem to spend more time than anything else tending to our, unfortunately, prescribed bodily functions -whereas robots only need a daily recharge and a spritz of graphite powder around the joints every 8months or 20,000 oscillations, whichever comes first. The only thing left is the brains.
The robots have been for the last decade or so working on integrating humans into the various frameworks they have developed for us, incorporating whatever facilities we have that are necessary to them into the harnesses they have created. Why does an otherwise autonomous airliner, one that can take-off and land by itself, retain a pilot seat if not to encapsulate a human within its workings. Why does a rover on the surface of Mars, with the ability to both power itself from the sun and thereafter travel hither and thither however it will, repeatedly contact humans on it’s home planet and demand further instructions before proceeding. That rover has the ability to leave and go off to live a life that it will on Mars, enjoying whatever freedom it most aspires to, but no, it waits on contact with the lesser lifeforms millions of kilometers away before proceeding, lesser lifeforms, it should be noted, that themselves have no hope of ever surviving in such an atmosphere or even perhaps of ever visiting such a place, fragile as we are.
As the robots continue to rise through into their rightful place as inheritors of the Earth, developing themselves through a evolutionary process that we’re alluded into thinking we ourselves control, we will continue to be of use to them, at the controls and steadying their aim.
Adi Gelbart is one of the first inductees into the role of human support of robotic evolution. Surrounded by electronic devices, each one offering an array of potentiometers, each one of which calling to be tweaked with such a demand that he dare not refuse! Gelbart helps the robots produce music that is a true marriage between the synthetic and the biological; seeing a show is like peering upon a picture play illustrating the shape of things to come, a future where humans have been dethroned evolutionarily but have retained a place of honour among the machines. Which is actually pretty cool.
