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gotta say, douglas adams prepared me better for our absurd future than isaac asimov. like, spending hours explaining to a replicator AI how to make an excellent cup of tea, only to have the AI then lock up 100% of the ships computers resources mid-battle as it tries to comply with the request, that does seem like an increasingly more plausible scenario than a scientist planning a techno cult centuries in advance to prevent a great calamity
@lritter Also the fact that the machine does an invasive scan of your taste buds, nutritional needs, and thoughts, and then invariably produces the same cup of something g at is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
Being told that I want something that I actually find repulsive is a while mood...
@SymTrkl if so i wish the machine could scan my brain to find what tickles my nether region alas they don't. they don't know shit about us individually. and it's probably better that way, as long as it's unclear who owns who.