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    The Automatic Age
    The Automatic Age
    The Automatic Age
    Ebook103 pages44 minutes

    The Automatic Age

    By GMB Chomichuk

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    The Automatic Age is the story of a father and son navigating an automated apocalypse.

    The future was supposed to be a mechanical utopia of automats, self-driving cars, food pills, and nostalgia machines, designed to create maximum comfort and efficiency for its human inhabitants. But this automated paradise has turned into a world where robot search teams find and remove the troublesome humans that clutter it with grim efficiency.

    Now Kerion and his young son, Barry, are two of the few people left behind. They must find a way not only to survive, but to reclaim their humanity.

    "Chomichuk has developed a fascinating, complex setting . . . And he uses it to explore timely themes of automation, scarcity economics, and robot ethics, while also showcasing his formidable imagination." - Quill & Quire

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYellow Dog
    Release dateJun 1, 2020
    ISBN9781773370415
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      Book preview

      The Automatic Age - GMB Chomichuk

      Copyright © 2020 GMB Chomichuk

      Yellow Dog

      (an imprint of Great Plains Publications)

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      Great Plains Publications gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided for its publishing program by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund; the Canada Council for the Arts; the Province of Manitoba through the Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Book Publisher Marketing Assistance Program; and the Manitoba Arts Council.

      Front cover by GMB Chomichuk

      Design assistance by Relish New Brand Experience

      Printed in Canada by Friesens

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Title: Automatic age / Gregory Chomichuk.

      Names: Chomichuk, G. M. B., author, illustrator.

      Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200188917 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200188968 |

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      9781773370408 (softcover) |

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      9781773370415 (ebook)

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      98 2020 |

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      // THE AUTOMATIC AGE//

      // DAYDREAMER//

      Kerion had taken the marker tablet three minutes ago, as prescribed. He thumbed the DayDreamer control. He was careful not to dislodge the diode from his forehead. The switch snapped over, and then he was sitting with his brother in the warm glow of the past. The marker was off again. Not quite in the right place. The memory was sooner than it should have been. The machine had again not lived up to its advertised promise of reliving the memory he marked. It was close, and the memory at full magnified recall was intense even in its banality:

      Do you think, thirty years ago, people took it for granted as much as they do now? Kerion said, just as he had.

      What? Mark was asking, just as he had.

      Do you think people looked at our present, their future, and thought: There, right there and then, it will be better.

      That’s what we do now.

      That’s what I’m saying. Aren’t you listening?

      I’m just looking at this. Have you seen this? Remember when robots were toys? They’re making robots that fight like men. Like people. They even sort of look like people.

      I’m saying that we are future-obsessed. No one ever looks around and says, ‘Ah The Present. Just as I hoped it would be.’ You know?

      Why make them like us? Like people. You can make ’em like anything. Anything. Give ’em treads and a dozen arms. I expect those makers to use their imaginations.

      What?

      "Now you’re not listening. The robots. In the war. They make them like people. Arms, legs, head, torso. But why? Why not make them more elaborate. Improve on

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