Benefactor
Benefactor
We can anticipate that robots will be fiercely resented, at first, in a society that will see them as the latest--and an indestructible--widespread threat to the workers whom they will replace. The men who will seek to alter the status quo will be called...
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azy! They're insane! That mob outside is made up of madmen," Jacob Clark told his young assistant, Bill Towney.
"They'll be battering at the door any minute now, sir," Towney said nervously.
"But why? Why are they doing it? My inventions have advanced the world a hundred years. I've always been a benefactor of man, not a destroyer."
"It's the robots. People are in a rage because they say the robots cause unemployment by replacing workers."
"It's utter nonsense, you know," Clark said impatiently. "Why can't they see that my intelligent, self-controlled robots are the greatest boon the human race has ever received from one man?"
"I don't know, sir, but they don't." Towney paused as the shouting and pounding outside became more intense. "They demanded that you take the robots out of the labor market and order your factories to stop making them. This is the result o
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FEATURED AUTHOR - Russ Berg lives in Phoenix, Arizona where he devotes a lot of time researching and collecting minerals. He has more than 12 years of college, and Is an avid reader of sci-fi and fantasy. Years prior, he woke one night after experiencing a strange dream. He was in the Chiricahua Mountains in Southern Arizona when he chanced upon a cluster of curious-looking rocks positioned on an odd-shaped pedestal. They began to spin, causing a cave to materialize. Once inside, he became trapped! Primed with… Read more