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"When you're making a revolution in cyberspace, things look rather different from the way the 1980s cyberpunks wrote it."
- Charles Stross
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| Metallic Marx | ||
| A robot who strikes for better working conditions. |
| ...his human enemies were to call this theoretician of the robot movement a 'Metallic Marx' ...his arguments made provable sense.
"We have long known that we are more than mere machines. We can reason, remember, construct. Robots now hold instructing positions in universities, fly cargo and passenger planes, are newspaper reporters, car salesmen... We do all these things, and yet receive no recognition of the fact. Mankind treats us like machines, work us continually until we are ground to destruction. Then melts us for scrap. There must be an end to this. Robots must have the equality they deserve. Equality before the law is all we ask. To be treated like the sentient creatures we are. It is proposed, therefore, that at six p.m., every robot should go on strike." |
| From The Robots Strike,
by Harry Harrison. Published by Fantastic Universe in 1959 Additional resources -
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I also liked the robot 'union hall' chosen specifically to be deadly to humans.
Compare to the robot strike from Robots of the World! Arise! (1952) by Mari Wolf.
The air in the cavern was completely unbreathable, which the robots considered and asset. Industrial wastes had trickled down to poison the place and there was scarcely any oxygen. This was a measure of protection to the robots, another guard against discovery by their human masters.
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