Congrats — you’ve been handed a robot whose sole job is to relieve you of one chore, job, or responsibility you particularly hate. What is it?

Before we got tangled up in the interwebs and a good part of the population disapeared into the unreality via their cellphones I had a very intersting conversation with my friend’s husband about robots.

He looked at them as tools or appliances, like toasters with brains.

But the part about creating robots that ‘think and learn’ rubbed me the wrong way.

” So. they’d be slaves.”

” No. They’d only have one purpose and you know they’re not human so they can’t be slaves.”

” So you’d purposely design them to not want to do anymore then you told them-like cleaning your house or walking your dog.”

” Yes.”

” Designer slaves?”

My friend’s husband laughed, ” They aren’t human. That slave arguement doesn’t even apply.”

” You know, many a slave owner has said that.”

We beat around that topic for awhile and to this day I still don’t like the idea of creating a robot ‘to do’ for me.

And as far as slaves- at work my printer has a name and chore. It’s called a Slave Printer.

And it does whatever it’s told to do by anyone who pushes a print button from their

computer and no matter what’s going on my printer will pick the job up.

Ok this prompt should have been fun, what’s the one thing I’d like to have a Robot do for me that I hate.

You know what I hate. Standing at the bus stop in the morning. I’d like to have a Robot do that for me. Just stand there and wait for my bus and when my bus shows up?

Haven’t figured that part out yet…and I’ll tell you something that’s ok. Unless of course I had the Robot figure that out for me too…