Ted Rall - Wednesday February 28, 2018 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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In the U.S., techies are developing robots to replace manual laborers and service workers. What if they followed the example of Japan, where they're working on conversational humanoid companions to hang out with an aging population? The socsec-1 bureaucratobot acts just like real government worker. Social security administration. Take another number, old timer! This line closed. There's the cash-extracting scamatron series of cyborgs. He sold me on a cool reverse mortgage! The an-noy 4 delivers a conversational experience uncannily like an actual younger relative. No I can't talk louder listen. Yer too old to date. Still using a flip phone?! "Assisted living"

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