First of all, this is mega ugly. Also, yes, it’s a brilliant idea to have a robot spy on you in bed. In addition, I don’t want anyone who isn’t legally married to me to touch my underwear and have any interaction with it at all.
Are people that lazy that they’d sacrifice privacy and beauty to … this?
People already take their phones into the bedroom, bathroom, private meetings, and everywhere else. That’s a camera, a microphone, a geolocator, and an internet connection, everybody knows it, and very few seem to care at all. They don’t care about their own privacy, and they don’t care about the privacy of anybody around them, either.
Okay, I enjoy and occasionally write and sell science fiction, but there’s no way in hell that those robotic arms are capable of autonomously locating and then precisely folding laundry items casually tossed on the bed.
The arms are either being carefully guided by an off-screen human operator, OR they’ve been pre-set to pick up laundry placed EXACTLY in a VERY specific location and pattern on the bed — which no ordinary housewife is going to do.
I was born 80 years ago, not yesterday.
Dreidel
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“First of all, this is mega ugly”
Yikes! I was not prepared for the two lamps to turn into insect arms…. totally gives me Bloodchild vibes…
Bloodchild being a classic SF short story about humans being used by giant sentient insects as incubators for their larvae. The insects actually like the humans and treat them as well as they can (while keeping them drugged up), and the humans sometimes curl up in the insects embrace….
(That is your nightmare fuel for today).
Hey, Cliff —
The story you’re referring to sounds fascinating! Can you give me a link (or at least a title that I can search for), just for the pleasure of reading it? Thanks!
Dreidel
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Ah, sorry. Cliff — I just reread your post and realize that the title is “BLOODCHILD.” So I’ll just do a search for that, unless you have a more direct link to share.
Dreidel
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“unless you have a more direct link”
Background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodchild_and_Other_Stories
Here are some links for it:
https://archive.org/details/1540992824-octavia-butler-bloodchild/mode/2up
Here’s an audio version:
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