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When the Machines Went Mad

2000 Plus · April 26, 1950 · 21 min · 1,956 words

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and chickens and pigs by my wife and I. Bye! Johnny, you hurt? Of course you pump your own water and plow and get blisters on your hand. I don't mind blisters. Do you think? Very sure.

And you can have a human name. Not a name with a number. I'm Bob. Bob Thomas. All right, Bob. What do we do now? Well, I've got your escape in the city all planned. We go back, but...

What's that? Who's there? electronic man don't go back to my police use the video signal let me see you divide that just anonymous remove it sure so take it down what about I don't look close to brag they got your thin mask and voice marks you out proud to run on the best I stopped by in next city Bob we've got to work fast

before the electronics when they're back Bob think I'm bad I think more The importance of experiments for the Master of Mechanical Brain are deceiving. What? Experiment! For years, more than working to produce electronic men that can make other electronic men.

But why? Why? Because the Master of Mechanical Brain can control electronic men, absolutely. Humans rebel like you two. If you had children with little rebel red bees, the Master of Mechanical Brain had denied marriage permits to everybody.

Except readjusted humans. human. Who might just as well be machine or marriages, no human children. Electronic men that can reproduce their kind and bingo. Complete machine civilization with a master as ruler. And once the experiments are a definite success, a master will liquidate the human.

Oh no! Oh from just... I read it such things that... but centuries ago... Bob... Let's get them out of here. Alright, let's... The electronic man will back. Take us now to readjust us for so...

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