~ image ~ Sedja gets no words from rusty robots in the Forgotten City
Some robots around the Forgotten City have gone to rust and may even be beyond hope of what a good long soak in oil could do.
If ever the people of this city return, they will have to invest in a robot repair program, as their machine servants are not so hot at keeping their metal selves well sprung.
As our own civilization lives through the dawn of the robot revolution, will the time come when, like the Forgotten City robots, we will fill the land with machine servants to do all manner of work, liberating people for creative roles in life?
Creative liberation was the dream of automation, but it didn't happen, as society failed to design an economy to match the changes. Now wealth flows to the few that would once have been paid out in wages to the many.
There is nothing wrong with more wealth flowing to the few, but when children are left hungry, there is.
What use is a society if children are not fed, or raised in a healthy environment, or offered creative options in life?
A long time ago we had the agricultural revolution that led to cities. Then more recently the Industrial Revolution arrived to change the world and currently automation is changing the world of work, even on farms, as machines move in.
Dairy farmers love the thought of not having to get up in the ungodly hours before dawn, but unless there is a creative revolution to build a new society fit for all children, the dawning robot revolution may simply repeat the past and another amazing opportunity be lost to send poverty on a long, long holiday into the distant past.
Lurking around the Forgotten City may make a person wonder if this SteamPunk society got the mix right.
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