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    Robots in the Back of the Bus

    By Rootman on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 8:52am |

    Heading to Occupy Miami and need my sign. Dan has a great concept with "Solidarity."

    My blighted neighborhood, when I was young, was visited weekly by the library bookmobile. The rear wall of the bus was shelves of science fiction, and I grew up with the great themes of literature and myth retold in short story form as pulp SF compilations.

    Man versus robots. The robotic servant turning on his masters. The retirement of humanity as robots ended human labor, and the dramatic consequences.

    Change "robots" to "corporations" and the 21st Century prophesy is fulfilled.

    So, a sign with something about robots. Maybe:

    100010010101010000010010101000100100

    010110101001101100110111011010101001

    101101000010010101011111011001011011

     

     

    Comments

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    by tmccarthy0 on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 5:20pm

    That's embarrassing. I'm like one of those tea partiers with a misspelled sign.


    by Rootman on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 5:41pm

    Hahahaa...


    by tmccarthy0 on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 5:51pm

    The geek equivalent of "Impeech the morans."


    by Rootman on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 6:08pm

    Nah, robots are much cooler than bankers.

    PS I hadn't seen that Flight of the Conchords bit. Hilarious. But it proves that robots are cool.


    by Michael Wolraich on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 6:06pm

    Bankers can be cool as people, if you run into them cause your kids play soccer with them or some community arts crap, but they shouldn't have more votes in Congress than the rest of us.


    by Rootman on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 6:32pm

    Robots can be cool as people too. But they don't have kids.


    by Michael Wolraich on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 2:23am

    Soon. Very soon.

    http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page


    by Verified Atheist on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 8:09am

    How about:

    The 1% - let's kill them with love sticks.

    by Qnonymous (not verified) on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 7:13pm


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 11:19pm