Tech Tales:The Magical Realism Robot Workshop for Sick Kids[2035, after the uplift]So one of the jobs that no one expected was designing cute robots for sick kids in hospitals.
It turned out after robots got really good and cheap and all the healthcare stuff improved that we all started spending time figuring out how to bring more joy and humanity to things that were otherwise scary, like hospitals and morgues and orphanages and everything else.Of course, the machines could design a bunch of these, but a lot of the value in people was figuring out what was going to be most funny or exciting or joyful to kids, so we’d make a lot of stuff and send them out in the local town to where kids gathered – parks or farmers markets or outside schools, and we’d see what people reacted to well.This was why in the 2030s in towns all across America you’d be walking down the street and there’d be ducks with giant thick-rimmed glasses talking in faux New York accents saying “I’m walking here”, and dogs walking on hind legs, and little lions with big cartoon grinning faces, and all the rest, just hanging out, and kids going up to them and them playing with the kids, and everything else.We figured out which machines would work for…
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