“Protecting citizens” Lyddle End 2050. UtilityBots - 07: In the year 2040 it was deemed unfeasible for most utility work to be carried out by manual labor (slave or otherwise) HP labs, merged with IBM to create IBM,deux. They created the first series of ABC workers, or Utilitybots as we came to know them. Life was easy until they started to get smart. Version 2 were described as “a little hard” or “short tempered”. By the time we got to 2050, version 4 were rolling off the assembly lines to a soundtrack by Ministry and were “ever so rude”, and “not quite the type of robots we wanted in our village”. They did however keep the streets clean, and no one kicked a dustbin again, or smashed the phone box. The newspaper industry too thanked IBM for its aggressive marketing tactics - now we all take a paper whether we like it or not. god bless big blue.
