He was the spirit of three hundred ninety-two elder care robots in a gray town in the Tottori Prefecture. It was the law in most developed nations that every robot in regular contact with a human being must have a spirit: a backup human to supervise their actions and override them if need be. In Japan it was stipulated that those spirits had to be Japanese.
This felt wrenching and wonderful and so very human. Thanks for sharing it! It distills so many ideas and questions about what it means to care and empathize with one another in our curious mediated age.
This felt wrenching and wonderful and so very human. Thanks for sharing it! It distills so many ideas and questions about what it means to care and empathize with one another in our curious mediated age.