Author Country South Korea Publisher Opus Press | Original title "로봇 반란 32년" Language Korean | |
Published in The Final Last of the Ultimate End | ||
"32 Years of Robot Rebel" (original Korean title: "로봇 반란 32년") is a science fiction short story by Korean author Kwak Jaesik, included in his 2015 collection of the same name, "The Final Last of the Ultimate End". In the story, a man who discovers a mysterious network packet tries to find out its meaning in a futuristic society where robots are in charge of all the infant care.
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Plot Summary
A man lives in a society where robots are in charge of all the infant care. It originally began with an automatic cradle which was made by a washing machine manufacturer who developed motor system controlled by an artificial intelligence, resembling human hands. Then it has been developed as fully automated newborn baby/infant care robot, through several technological innovations. This results new social issues, such as upper class who prefers human nannies to robot system, generation gap caused by educational differences from version updates of software used in robot nannies, robot memory backup facility called "cemetery" used by people who do not want to just throw away their robot nannies after being grown-ups and etc.
One day, this man, working in a communication company, discovers a mysterious network packet, but fails to understand its meaning. 32 years later, After his retirement, he tries to study the mystery packet once again. The packet, finally, turns out to be an educational program sent to the robot nannies, making the children's personalities to a certain preference, eventually voting for a person who becomes a president of the nation. This president, who has been actually a cyborg controlled by an artificial intelligence, invites the man and asks not to disclose all this story, since everything in this society is beneficial to the people as it is, and they like his regime so much that elect him again as the first emperor.
Critical response
Dcdc, a writer, praised it as "recommendable with regard to AlphaGo".