recalling maude
_POSTED_BY desik   
Monday, 28 July 2008

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Alfred had been missing payments on Maude since June and deliberately ignoring the rental company's mails so when the guys from Gazm called with the repossession  order he bulshitted his way out of it but within an hour of them calling he and Maude had split as he had no intention of going back to living on his own again. 


He'd hastilly packed an overnight bag with clothes  and paid the geek across the hall his last 50 bucks to deactivate and remove Maude's satellite  tracking device but the kid didnt know what he was doing and had fucked up some of Maude's thought processes as well. Alfred imagined that's why Maude had insisted on stealing a neighbours car.

' Fuck Mr Capcek ' she'd said when Alfred had meekly protested ' All property is theft'

Alfred had eventually been swayed as although the MORD 456-A fembot was a little out of his income bracket but not quite state of the art it was good value for money and programmed to move and rationalise like a natural.

 

He didnt have much time for real women which was just as well as they tended to regard him  as repulsive.  

 

It was when Maude killed the cop that Alfred had  really started to question  his attachment. He'd lost half his face in the third Gulf war serving his country and , well, as much as he objected to Maude's  disproportionate response to getting a traffic ticket , the cop probably had a family waiting at home,   he found it difficult to judge her too harshly as she  had always been there for him and that's all that counted wasnt it?

 

"You do love me though Alfred San "  Maude whispered into his ear later as they were holed up in a  motel.on the strip "
 
Her arms circled him protectively.

Alfred wondered if the geek had deactivated the lie detector.

'Of course I do  babe ' he said drawing his last breath '

 

Comments
redstarfist   |2008-07-28 03:04:59
this isn't science fiction, just a few steps ahead of what's happening in
"contemporary culture." I have no doubt that soon, many citizens of the
world will understand this post from first hand experience.
Hux-Leeeeeeeeeeeee  - groupthink ruined everything   |2008-07-28 03:44:47
I'm afraid that the real reason why she has been recalled is because she was
fucking with the conspiracy of silence. Rumor has it they cut out her tongue,
and now she's speechless.
Ridley   |2008-07-28 06:51:41
This dark humour just scratches the surface of the potential nightmarish
downside of attachment driven person-robot interaction and dependency as this is
the perfect technology for effectively sterilising the poor and preventing
them reproducing themselves.
The Pleasantville Kid   |2008-07-28 06:49:58
Redstarfist,

Trust you witless Luddites to wildly speculate and obsess about
robotic Armageddon rather than view the underlying technological advances and
entrepeneurialship here as a force for social good.


Frank   |2008-07-28 06:46:18
I'm with the Kid on this one. Sure there are legitimate concerns and there will
probably be a feminist backlash - particularly if Howard Stern testdrives the
prototype sexbot live on air - but for singles of both sexes there's real unmet
need here and it isnt for lifesize working models of Germaine Greer and Michael
Moore.
D   |2008-07-28 17:16:29
people will always find a way to use technology to address their emotional and
sexual needs.

Mork   |2008-07-28 16:50:04
I hate like robots
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