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ogy is advancing by tremendous leaps and bounds. One of his major goals, ever since the caveman harnessed an ox to a primitive plow, has been to make something else replace human muscle power. The ultimate "something else" is the robot that acts and thinks like a man. For the robot-powered society described here, paiade enlisted the fertile imagination and scientific knowledge of Isaac Asimov, an associate professor of biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine and a writer of science-Action stories, including a series on robots. Awful to Face Wondrous as Asimov's robotized world of the future may seem, the man who dreamed it up wants no part of it.

Says Asimov: "I'll be glad that I will have long since been dead rather than face life in such a society!" In the transportation systems of the future, electronically guided robots will be the bus and truck drivers. There may be robots that can repair TV sets, fix the plumbing, run IBM machines, act as traffic policemen, read galley proofs, serve as "information" attendants at railway stations. "In theory," says Asimov, "there is no reason hy any human job cannot be done by a machine if we can invent a robot brain as complex and as small as the human brain. Under such circumstances, there is no reason why a robot couldn't mentally be capable of doing anything a human can. "But who will need man then? Man will die off of simple boredom and frustration." The reason, Asimov points out, is that comparatively few people can be usefully creative.

Consider the Joneses, ho in a robotized world, have lost their usefulness: Mr. and Mrs. Jones would have it easy. Their robot butler would awaken them gently, serve them breakfast in bed and wheel away and wash the dirty dishes. The robot valet and maid would choose the day's attire and dress them.

"Free" for the day, Mr. and Mrs. Jones must decide what to do. Mrs. Jones doesn't have the drudgery of housekeeping.

Mr. Jones has no job to go to, since robots are doing nearly all the work. Of course, he could spend the day tinkering with his sailboat, although he knows a robot could tune up the auxiliary engine more efficiently. Mrs. Jones may decide to work in the garden.

Her robot could do this better, but she jealously guards this privilege. Some people the "aristocracy" in this strange robot society would be entitled to work. These would be the research people, the scientists, perhaps the philosophers and teachers. They would devote themselves to designing improved robot "brains," planning colonies on Mars, conquering space. One form of vitally needed "workers" would be the entertainers to keep mankind amused.

As heroes, they might be -rewarded with the right to work at a job: or they might win the privilege of using up raw materials (far more inefficiently and wastefully than robots) in some sort of do-it-yourself, tinkering project. Youth, with all of its explosive energy, would pose a serious problem in Asimov's fanciful world. Having so little to do, youngsters would surely become delinquents. They might form teen-age gangs for the purpose of springing a "robot rumble" to destroy a robot. Down with Robots There would, of course, be secret groups and crackpots who would form anti-robot political parties.

Asimov even visualizes anti-robot riots erupting from time to time. But more likely would be the formation of little societies and back-to-nature groups, retiring to the forests and living in a cooperative environment where robots were not allowed just "like the good old days." The straggle against boredom and sterility would be mankind's chief challenge. "Black markets" would flourish. People might pay outrageous amounts for a stick of wood to whittle. "Mankind," concludes Asimov, "could never stand the 'paradise' of a completely robot-based society.

What we must aim at is a balance in which boredom as well as human fatigue is kept at a minimum. Man must never be denied the chance to work as a human being." by SID ROSS All over the world and on the colonies in outer space, everyone is excited about the most popular event of the year. All human activity stops as people breathlessly await the outcome of the world's championship tiddlywinks contest. In this world of the future mankind has little else to be excited about. For earth has been transformed into a "paradise" where incredibly clever robots take tare of things.

They do the fanning, the factory work, run the trains, regulate traffic, enforce the law, cook the meals, clean the houses and distribute a vast wealth of goods and services to which every human being is entitled merely by being alive. Almost nothing familiar on earth today ill survive in this robotized world of the future. For instance: Only a privileged few will have the right to work at a job. The dream of youngsters ill not be to grow up rich and successful, but to be one of the favored few workers. Juvenile delinquency will take the form of vandalism against robots.

Everyone will aspire for some kind of "blue ribbon" for an amateur activity, hobby or sport possibly an award for the best ship model built out of matchsticks or the most colorful rock garden in town. Heroes and celebrities will be the persons who devise new parlor games. Withering Family Life Mankind's major struggle will be against boredom, with the suicide rate zooming as people lose the race. Governments and family life will wither away. Public officials will be replaced by Boards of Supervisors to "umpire" games, sports and recreation, and also administer competitive exams which would decide who could work at the few essential jobs left for human beings to do.

Fantastic? Certainly, by onr everyday standards of progress. Bat every one of these dizzying pictures of life in the future could conceivably become real when and if man creates robots to do his work for him. Man's mastery of science and technol Be not sorry Drive carefully. For 3 tthe 1 nose with a RELIEF IN SECONDS CoMenc Hint Soriv is a new fast-actmg formula. It opens up stuffed-up nose and dries sniffles of a cold, allergy or sinus passage contention Proiit A GlMiK breathing seconds.

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