THE MODEM PROMETHEUS
Book Details
Author(s)Matthew L. Martin
PublisherBIG PALE IMAGINATION
ISBN / ASINB003DA43ZW
ISBN-13978B003DA43Z4
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
A sci-fi short story, inspired in part by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...
In 2038, a group of Cal Tech students built a robot to assist them with their cooking and cleaning (and maybe some trig homework). Eventually the machine, nicknamed "Modem," develops sentience.
What will become of this newly self-aware robot? How will its makers react to it having a sense of self? What does it mean for it since there's a law that orders the immediate destruction of any robot that develops a consciousness?
What makes a person a person; who has the right to keep someone from developing free thought, and at what point does service become slavery?
Those questions, and more to be pondered, are found in this jumbo-sized short story.
In 2038, a group of Cal Tech students built a robot to assist them with their cooking and cleaning (and maybe some trig homework). Eventually the machine, nicknamed "Modem," develops sentience.
What will become of this newly self-aware robot? How will its makers react to it having a sense of self? What does it mean for it since there's a law that orders the immediate destruction of any robot that develops a consciousness?
What makes a person a person; who has the right to keep someone from developing free thought, and at what point does service become slavery?
Those questions, and more to be pondered, are found in this jumbo-sized short story.
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