Homo Roboticus
Introduction
This story began as something I had to write. Full disclosure: my own mother died in 1999 of pancreatic cancer. By the time it was discovered, it was too late and inoperable. She went through chemo anyway and she died two months later. I’ve often wondered what might have happened if ANAD technology, as portrayed in this story might have helped. But, as we know, technology is always double-edged.
I hope the technology I have portrayed in this story never comes to pass but I fear the worst. Mankind has a way of developing something and putting it to use without ever really understanding the consequences of what he’s doing. No doubt, the ones who invented fire got burned by fire along the way. But nobody stopped to ask whether fire was a good thing.
We often speculate on what it would be like to meet aliens from another world. In Homo Roboticus, we learn that we are the aliens….