It`s seven o`clock in the morning. The
alarm started screaming to wake me up, and prepare for the new day coming. I
opened the eyes and turned the head to stop it, but I couldn`t move my heavy
injured arm when suddenly I heard a strange robotic voice talking:
-Welcome to your new world! My name
is Alarm Robotic, my main duties are to facilitate your lifestyle and let you
think more of your inner side,-said a small robot staring me with those big
cold eyes, without eyelashes and eyebrows, so mechanical and far to me.
It started moving on my bed and
tidying the pillows, the bed sheets, so fast that I could never have done. The
movements were regular and perfectly programmed to raise the hands and
transport all types of heavy objects surrounding the house. It had a short gray
neck, that hold an egg shape head, with three yellow lightened antennas. The
hands were removable and transformed into repairing materials that were inside
the belly, services and dishes sets, knives, spoons and forks, medical
equipment, that impressed me so much that I couldn`t calculate how a small
belly carried all those things. It continued to clean the room and move up and
down the ornaments and furniture with such a windy speed that I hesitated to
say a word.
When it finished cleaning the room,
came to me and took my injured arm, changed the bandages and cut them with some
small laser scissors that I saw the first time in my life. They were quite
amazing with a triangle form that permitted the laser to come out thanks to a
small button on the top of its body. Quick and precise the robot finished
caring about my arm and stood in front of me waiting for the next order.
How different my house look alike!
The walls are digital touching screens, you can command and open the doors and
windows, activate the temperature of air, oven and washing machine. I can watch
a film at any part of my house and select the preferred one on the internet. Bookshelves
don`t exist anymore, they are replaced by a digital library, free space, and
wide dimensions. In the balcony, there are some flowers that remind me there is
still nature and they wait for my command to get a feed from the electronic
equipment. It`s been a long time that I have forgotten to press the button to
get services. Touching is the motto of our days.
Quite and silent, standing on the bed
I started thinking about the robot words for the human being inner side. Was it
right? Can human convert free time in improving and working about the spirit, travel
into his own undergrounds and discover the resources of a river that never
stops flowing? Maybe this is the key to balanced control and inner discoveries
but it seems quite easy and not harmonized with the emptiness of outside world.
Easy and commanded living emphasizes
the vacuum of this two different worlds that make humans never stop searching
the parallel of harmony. Is this what makes us happy? Less work and lots of
thoughts? I really can`t imagine what will come next if we stop having a
purpose in our life. Maybe our ideas can find a mystic collaboration between
human and robots, a balance that fulfills the future and present, without
interrupting our evolution.
Robots can never replace human. This
is a fact. They help a lot in a better lifestyle and goods services but that is
all. Emptiness and the will to discover the unknown will accompany us forever.
Perhaps this is the answer.
Suddenly an alarm interrupted my
thoughts. The robot moved towards me and transformed its hand in a plate. Ready
to serve my breakfast.
©Elisa Konomi
