Actually I think Issac Asimov lays out a more realistic scenario in “Inferno” with a character asking himself who is the slave.
After generations of being dependent on robots people lived their lives according to how the robots would react within the 3 laws. The robots still took orders from people as long as they didn’t conflict with the 3 laws but the humans also avoided danger, bad eating habits, and other risky behaviors because the robots couldn’t allow them.
I look at cars today and all the technology that goes into them and I see a lot of younger people who can’t drive safely without that technology.
I wonder about the kids of today who are increasingly dumbed down by technology. They believe there will eventually be an app for everything in life so that they can just give the command and their wish will be granted.
It seems to me that as machines become smarter, humans will naturally become less intelligent in their dependence on them.
Given that, I suspect that a new luddite movement will pop up soon (and go off the grid). And for the first time in my life, I might be sympathetic to it.
“Actually I think Issac Asimov lays out a more realistic scenario in “Inferno” with a character asking himself who is the slave.”
That is a bit like something from Faulkner. Something along the lines of “In 1865 Abe Lincoln freed the ******s from the Compsons. In 1933, Jason Compson freed the Compsons from the ******s”.
I’d never made that connection before, but it’s the same theme.