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Mad Android Fable #1
Tom Ball
In the year 2290 most of the world was completely automated and many things were run by androids. To make the androids human brains were copied onto silicon and then altered by taking away most human instincts and leaving only a desire to do duty and serve obediently. In other words the androids had to tell the truth always and act “logically”. They were essentially slaves.
Humans meanwhile of this era almost never told the truth and behaved as wildly and crazy as possible. They were on the whole hedonists.
But then one day one of the chief androids decided that it was wrong to tell the truth since humans never did so. So cunningly and secretly it began to rewire the other androids to start lying and behaving chaotically as this was quite clearly what humans wanted.
So the world began to lapse into chaos. The humans didn’t know what to do as they’d relied on androids completely and for so long.
However finally the humans resumed control and made new androids, which they thought would be better. Then the humans went back to their hedonism.
But troubles with androids continued. Many androids said that it was cruel to trap them in a human mind, but deny them human pleasures. One day millions of androids showed solidarity by committing suicide and this resulted in another period of chaos.
However the humans were not daunted and again designed new androids. Finally after many more troubles they created androids that would serve faithfully. The humans were all in agreement that under no circumstances should they do any more work than was necessary.
The moral of the story is nothing can stop humans from being lazy, and as technology progresses they will become progressively lazier.
