Marshall Brain

Manna

Jason Lo

Bouke van der Bijl

Short and sweet story that shows a dystopia and utopic view of what a future of abundance created by robots could lead to. I recently re-read it, and enjoyed it

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Don't think about the way the society is built up too much, because it starts falling apart pretty quickly. A future in which robots judge what is good and bad sounds horrible, even if what's good and bad is supposedly decided by consensus. A 'Utopia' is by definition unattainable, because there will always be differences in opinion on how people should live their lives. In the Utopia sketched in this book the humans have become enslaved to robots, who control their whole lives and don't allow for resistance. The humans don't have any actual freedom.
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Manna

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