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Facing liquidation due to public mistrust of robotic life-forms, a historic robotics company introduces a new eco-friendly form of robot in hopes of improving robot-human coexistence only to accidentally pave the way for robot domination of life on Earth.
Through three tales of impossible machines with abilities to manipulate the physical world, travel through time and space, and bestow telepathy onto an entire community, candidates of an engineering exam in the far future are asked to ponder fantastical implications of technology.
In the far future where posthumans upload their consciousness to the digital cloud and reside in robotic bodies to achieve immortality, humans who reject this conversion are hunted down by the posthuman's artificial intelligence army. But as one AI becomes aware of the posthumans' excessive cruelty, he starts to recognize the inherent worth of mortal humans. In the far future where posthumans upload their consciousness to the digital cloud and reside in robotic bodies to achieve immortality, an AI soldier in charge of hunting down humans who reject this conversion becomes troubled that the posthumans have, along the way, traded away their conscience.
In a futuristic America, over the course of 200 years, a unique robot becomes an artist, a historian, and an inventor. He starts to wear clothes and invents human-like organs for his body, but what he wants more than anything is to be legally recognized as a man. After an operation that makes him mortal, the world congress rules in his favor and the world president grants him the honor of humanity.
There are 770 million cameras in the world and we don't know who is watching or why. An worker in boiler room, a cop, a high school student, and a woman escaping from an abusive environment all have one thing in common, they are being watched.
In a dystopian future, a struggling salesman and an enigmatic scientist join forces to defend the planet from a legion of deceptively benevolent robots.
In the future, two human men and their robotic companion are stationed at an old mining base on Mercury. When the robot goes missing on a mission, it's up to the men to find and rescue their companion—at risk to their own lives.
When a serial writer decides that he can’t take more of his monotonous life, he destroys his copywriter and leaves his domestic prison to protest the rise of the machines.
In an alternate Great Depressions NYC, a Jewish foreman investigates the true outputs of his factory as his eccentric German employer seeks to use an emerging idea called "industrivism," or the improvement of the human body through technology, created by a bored pulp writer, to recruit workers to fulfill his machinations. Without realizing, a pulp writer in an alternative 1920s New York City invents the idea of "industrivism" that earns her an audience with an eccentric German businessman. Meanwhile, a Jewish foreman investigate the true purpose of the factory and unearths his employer's dark past and future machinations.
In a distant future of intergalactic colonies and relative diplomacy between extra-terrestrial races, two junkyard scavengers scour star systems for potential valuables. After stumbling upon a damaged robot on an abandoned planet, the pair analyse its memory core in the hopes of turning a profit, but are instead forced to challenge their notion of humanity.
