people have been upset about Robots Taking Our Jobs for decades and the flipside worry is that they can do the jobs better. sci-fi posits impossibly strong and incredibly quick androids that are indistinguishable from humans and extremely lethal. furries are just like "he only cares about fucking" or "aaaaaaa h he does everything wrong and , does not have the latest software updates
Eternal life as a machine? Buddy, show me a computer that stays relevant for 15 years, hell one that stays working for 8 is rare enough! Machines with moving parts? Even worse! It's not like the human body isn't a machine with moving parts to start! And that's a self repairing system, I can't imagine dealing with metal fatigue.
I welcome the attempted takeover of the clumsy, horny, patchily updated, scratch built, prototype protogen furry bots and drones. It will be hilarious.
this is why clive is outdated. because that's Computer anyway. people who collect them (like me) are surrounding themselves with machines that were proud of being relevant... for the eight months they were relevant. before the next Mac came out; before the next PC came out; before the next Intel chip came out and suddenly the "i7 10th gen" that looked like a freshly waxed paint job three weeks ago now looks like a clapped out east coast oldsmobile. and very rapidly the aches and pains stack up and become intolerable, and what was a Bitchin Rig turns into a machine you can't get anyone to take. you can't throw it away, though. so it goes in the corner, and sits, and eventually gets relegated to some menial task.
clive is no longer useful. he is still here, though
fiction concept: an electronics recycler in a cyberpunk/capitalist hellscape future, sharing his interesting finds along the lines of what @atomicthumbs sometimes posts
who the hell recycled this? there's thirty-two -licensed- copies of IBM NeoWatson on this thing and they have more legal rights than I do, so I can't just break it down for parts. hell, i have to keep it plugged into the grid or I could be charged for existential dataharm, christ. thank god the guys doing intake didn't cut the power cord off this one.
does anyone know a good intellect law specialist in the midCal area? or someone who can help me track down who left this at the loading dock? this is way above my paygrade and my boss is just telling me to throw it into the bay and make it somebody else's problem, but my roommate is a shiny and I'll never be able to look at them in the face again if I did that
this is why all my cyborg and robot characters fall into 3 main categories:
- Sell outs. Works for the government/a corporation, upkeep/maintenance/medical insurance is more or less handled for them, and they enjoy the same kind of semi-freedom as the protagonists of Ghost in the Shell. usually cops
- Has beens. They consider the government/corp to have ruined their life because they were previously 1 and now they're not, and rather than turning into a loyalty obsessed wackjob like Gunther in Deus Ex they end up doing whatever they did for the government but freelance now, because they can never make enough money to cover all their medical care properly.
- Punks. The ones using older tech and only when it makes sense, picking the stuff they've heard is reliables and you can find parts for on ebay. More likely to wear glasses than get their eyes replaced since both work basically as good as the other. The using a thinkpad until it dies and then buying a new battery of cybernetics.
