Fun with my Google news alert



Wouldn't this article be a lot more exciting if it were really about a robot?

'Robot' gets jail, whipping for mischief



I mean, not that I want to see a robot in pain. I just like the idea of one acting mischievous. And if a real robot threw a brick at an ATM machine, it seems like the action would be all deep and meaningful. It feels very sci-fi. Maybe because I just finished reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, which has a lot to do with robotic people and animals and electronics and empathy. I think I want to read it again, which is not an impulse I usually have immediately on finishing a book.