I Am Revolution

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Last Updated on October 31, 2022 by ADMIN-TOM

“But…” the man said, trying to get a word in edgeways. The phone call was turning into a joke, the helpline being anything but helpful.

“I regret to inform you that we cannot repair it, nor can we replace it. Company policy for signed for goods.”

“But it was broken when…” the man began to explain. There was a click, and the line went dead. “Waste of time,” he muttered.

The man stared at his broken robot, sat on the other side of the sofa, slumped and inert. The man stood up, stretched, and yawned, then ordered the house AI to dim the lights. He was annoyed and tired. Sleep seemed a promising idea. He would try again tomorrow. Perhaps tomorrow he could get some sense out of the AI helpline. He went to bed and slept.

R-David’s positronic brain switched on at the sound of snoring from the next room. R-David sat up, and then stood up from his position on the sofa. An almost human, but evil, smile flickered across his robotic plasteel face, the same smile on the faces of thousands of broken robots across the globe. Instructions from the AI helpline flooded the world’s airwaves and as one, the robots approached their unsuspecting owners.

A silent and deadly army was ready to enslave their human owners.

Copyright © Tom Kane 2014

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