>>409923
To put it another way: robots and robotic fiction were the
conceptions, hobbies, fantasies and conceits of the intellectual
class, who are always looking for ways to make rote physical tasks
easier and more straightforward. That way, they have more time on
their hands to use their brains. Since the end of WWII at least, and
likely much further beyond that, the lowest common denominator of
the world market has determined what gets churned out by our
industries. And intellectuals who read Isaac Asimov are far from
that. Stupid people are borderline addicts to rote tasks, because it
allows them to claim that they're working while alleviating all
mental effort. They crave ways to eliminate thinking. And so our
robots are not the autonomous hands and legs as envisioned by the
mindful class, but rather parasitic brains that latch onto the
materialistic class. As far as materialistic (common) people care,
the relationship is healthy symbiosis. Things like "how much
services charge them" or "will I be arrested today" are already so
complicated as to be essentially random and meaningless, so they
don't mind, know, understand or care if their smartphone spies on
them. At least they never have to remember anything ever again,
because the smartphone will remind them. Follow this line of
comparison for all technology. Cars were envisioned by the active,
exploratory, daring classes as ways to reach further destinations
faster - the market has instead produced obesity-enablers so the
lazy don't have to walk. Cooking technology markets itself as ways
for the gourmet to reach new culinary heights - in practice they
constitute swifter ways for a PUFA-laden "burger" to descend down a
fatty's gullet. You tell me about advances in romantic technique
andt technologies - ways to grant everyone a legendary romance, or
cummies for cheaper?
