The Fully Automated World
With all of the talk lately of how robots will soon be doing all of the work that used to be only done by us humans, it seems to be time also to talk about how us humans are going to adapt to this change. I don't know about the rest of you, but I will be joining what may soon be the only remaining human workforce on Earth; inventing robots to assist us humans with the inevitable surplus of leisure time that we will soon have to deal with. If nobody has to work, then we are all going to have a lot of time to kill. What do humans do when unencumbered with labor-- when they no longer have to pay rent to breath on or near the planet? I'll explore that question, so that I can then invent a new robot that can do the leisure and recreational activities for us.
Who wants to work?
If you enjoy your job, then it's not work. Every day though, many people trudge off to 'work' every day, when all the while they would really rather be doing something else. It's that 'something else' that I'll target for the design of my new robot.
The obvious template for the overall design of my robot is the human form-- it seems that it would naturally be suited for the things that humans naturally do. By examining the biology, perhaps we can discover what those obscured natural human tendencies are, thus securing the best blueprint for our new robotic answer to any 'spare time' issues.
The Human Form
At a glance, it is apparent that when it comes to the human body, the only maintenance that is universally required is the constant addition of oxygen to the device, then the routine addition of water and certain mineral/chemical products. Once these fuels and lubricants are added, the human will continue to take in air, and the machinery which governs this function can be controlled by the human consciously, or it can be set on automatic. This operating system would indicate that humans, while obligated to 'breath' at least every three minutes, find some use for the 'manual' control feature on this apparatus, and it could be that some humans enjoy breathing. This should be noted, as we will be using these more enjoyable features in our robot design.
Food
While WATER fell in as the second most important fuel, after oxygen, there is little indication the humans enjoy consuming water, a critical component that humans apparently only consume out of necessity. Water should taste like nothing at all, and could nearly by considered 'work' for humans to be able to afford water at times.
FOOD. Here's a function that, while necessary for human operations, there seem to be entire organs devoted to the enjoyment of food, and our robot will need a way to process the aromas of food, and a way to discern what is 'good' food and what is 'bad'. We'll get back to this one after lunch.
Sexual Functions
The sex organs. These organs (not pictured) seem to be the entire point of human existence. All of that work was done on Earth so that humans could play, and the reason that adult humans bother to play anything is so that these organs can be used. All of that eating of food (and water) was done so that there would be energy saved in the system so that these sex organs can be utilized.
While the individual humans have found ways to activate and stimulate these organs without the assistance of other units, the statistics show that many humans engage in the stimulation of these organs with other humans, and that their leisure time had been nothing of the sort. They were very busy the whole time!
Thinking about this 'sex' feature, another component to the robot design can be entertained: Emotion. We'll program the things to be downright unreasonable, or bitchy, or enthusiastic and encouraging, communicative and expressive, or introverted and gloomy, perhaps controlled by the moons apparent remote-control features and unseen forces, just like humans. The new robot creation will need to have free will, in that sometimes a human simply is 'not in the mood', which is a common feature in the human design which guides our inquiries here. There must be some complex equations at work there, a sort of holographic, fractal computer that creates the invariable and acute connection between the individual humans. This alone is another force of nature to ponder-- the attraction, and desire, to propagate, to make humans.
Who would buy my robots?
Why would anybody-- any human, have any use for a robot that only eats and rubs it's components upon other willing robots? The numbers don't look good. I recall from early research that with the robots around, no humans will have any money anymore, or they will just replicate everything they need in their kitchen/sex shelters and have no need for my redundant machines-- machines designed to kill time easily, having no sense of it, machines that eat all of the best food, waste water, and engage in the most popular sex, while us humans are sitting around with nothing to do. I get it. There's little purpose, and the invention is unnecessary. If necessity is, indeed, the mother of invention, then I won't be impregnating her with this robot seed of mine.
Humans are designed with legs which prevent their sex organs from getting scraped up while they go to use the organs with reciprocation from other human units. Whether they like it or not-- it's what they do. They eat and drink, ultimately engaging their organs repetitively on one another, or 'mating' as it is sometimes called. They sleep practically one third of their time away, and meanwhile, what do we get from them? We get a lot more from humans than robots will ever be able to create.
Spectacular architecture, artworks and sculptures, songs and poetry, love and emotion, care and nurture, amazing creations are emerging daily from the humans, and if life is all about breathing and sex, and the point of sex is to create more humans for more breathing, then it looks to me like humans know what they're doing here. The services of my robot will not be needed. The human being has already been invented.
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thanks for reading along, all vote-bots still welcome, nothing personal
I am so pleased I have legs lol :)
They have a distinct purpose, according to my research. ;)
Please tell mine that as one doesn't work like it's supposed to
I like the faces, hee. Bitchy? lol. I've often wondered if there are males who are in fact attracted to that quality, despite their complaining, though the why of it escapes me. I have a couple of friends, who are lovely for the most part, but when they are bitchy, they are bitchy, and I prefer they stay home, or somewhere away from me. Yet men seemed to fall all over themselves to be with them when we were younger.
I didn't inherit that particular quality, my husband can actually count how many times my mood could be described by that word--most of those times were while pregnant. I was not a glowing pregnant woman, I missed tobacco, caffeine, and alcohol profoundly and in that order. It still amazes me that I subjected myself to that state twice, but my son was quite insistent that we be the ones that usher him onto this plane and 'raise' him. That's how I see it, and even he agrees-it had to be us.
I can't imagine a robot that could convincingly pass itself off to me as human. Particularly as I can feel a person's spirit. I imagine that it would be eerie for me, to experience that absence. I don't object to them doing my housework though. Nope, I have always wanted the Jetson's maid.
I do think we choose our parents, somehow having the bigger picture available before being born.
On the bitchy robots-- those qualities would be installed on both models, male and female, there's no shortage of bitchy men in the blueprints.
The Jetson's maid! Was she the one with the offstage romance with one of the other actors, maybe one of the exercise machines? Wait I'm thinking of Brady Bunch, the 'mom' had a thing going with the oldest 'son' off camera. Scandalous.
Carol and Greg! LOL, I remember hearing about that. No, I was talking about the cartoon Jetsons, their housekeeper was actually a robot ;) Meet George Jetson, his boy Elroy...if that doesn't ring a bell, then you probably never watched it, but it was a futuristic cartoon where the buildings were skyscrapers times ten, you never saw the ground in that show, they flew around in little hover crafts.
My internet went haywire on me again last night, I took it as a sign and did some other things ;)
I was being silly last night, after I repaired my post. I think her name was Rosie. I was thinking she was messing with one of George's exercise machines, but I didn't want a rumor to start just because I was being silly. That treadmill looked nervous when they gave Rosie her walking papers.
Missing the joke was my fault, lol, I am fondly known as an intelligent airhead ;)
You read this? Dammit, I looked at it and it was all deleted except for the first paragraph-- I'm confused now even more... I just edited the whole thing away I think
I'm going to have to figure out how to find this lost post and re-edit or repost, confused now though, I;m glad you saw it before I did whatever I did
It was definitely all there. I'm sorry that happened :(
https://steemit.com/steemdata/@furion/this-app-shows-you-edit-history-for-any-post
Thanks for the brilliant creation here. I'm still smiling. Plus, now I have to purge the vision from my visu-mental cortex of all your designs of the future, falling head over heels for the Eureka, and causing all sorts of mayhem in the electronic works.
That visu-mental cortex should be fine, I use plant-based salves to both bend and mend mine. But yeah I had to turn the garden hose on all those bots.
( : Just don't turn it on the Jetsons maid..."Right Rourge".
We call for an exorcist, and the Geek Squad van shows up with their own 'garden hose'.
That turned out way differently than I was expecting at the end! In a very good way. I was almost lost before that. :)
It was programmed to have a happy ending.