The Mayor of Planet Jean is a jerk.

Freefall has been running for a long time, but the interesting thing is that Florence has discovered that the robots on Jean are using the same neural architecture as she and the other Bowman’s Wolves do. As a result, they play, have unusual interests, and there is the possibility that they may have “sabotaged” the factory ships that actually worked properly.

But now the mayor has learned that Florence works for Sam, and that she is an artificial being. Unfortunately, the mayor apparently has assumed that “it” is just another robot.

I can’t help but wonder what’s going to happen when word spreads among the robots of the mayor’s insulting behaviour to Florence: delivering direct orders, hauling her out of the shower and all that. Either she thinks the company Sam keeps is as bad as he is, or she really doesn’t connect that Florence is a living, intelligent, feeling being that doesn’t enjoy being treated like a piece of property.

The strange thing, however, is that nobody has even noticed that even one of the 451 million robots is behaving strangely. With that number of autonomous machines running around, surely one would have been caught out by now.

Posted in Comics (,) by R Cruickshank Jan 23, 06:59 PM Tags: , , ,

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