Meet me, robot me, and my family from the future. Courtesy of ByDesign Festival 2022
In the popular imagination, robots are seen in four key ways. One, they are eliminating human labor-power from as many jobs as possible. Two, they are providing sex to humans, particularly men, lonely men. Three, they are domestic servants. Four, they are in an apocalyptic war with their masters. The last provided the final revelation in HBO’s Westworld, a show that also, like Blade Runner, had “standard pleasure models.” As for The Jetsons‘ Rosey the Robot, she was at once a classic eliminator of human jobs (the kind of robots we are most familiar with