The Ikon

[mtjsmith]

The Minister of Plenty looked down at the pamphlet and picked it up, and he skimmed through the pages. Nano-flux-something, Controlled Artificial Intelligence using limited synthetic pyro-thing-cores, Ping had difficulty understanding the intricacies however got the basic idea."

"Honoured Premier, you wish to invest in creating robots to fill the labour gap? In theory that is an excellent idea - Machines do not require food or water or sleep. If we got these onto the many production line's we have, I have no doubt that costs would be driven down in the long run. However.."

He exhaled deeply.

"Again, the funding has to come from somewhere to help with the initial start up costs."

He looked down at the pamphlet and then drew his eyes up to meet each of the ministers around the table.

"It.. might work.. If we delay the XKR project for another few months. I realise that the base models are ready to go into production - but if we divert that capacity to creating these robots.. In the long run.. we'd have almost a disposable military. Think of it! We could have robot's running this SCUD squadron which Mendel briefed me on. No need to use humans for that."

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