Madison, WI: Rise of the Machines

A group of angry robots from the Robotics and Automation Associate of Madison (Wisconsin) took to the sidewalks of a local college campus to protest their condition of servitude. The robots carried signs and handed out leaflets written in binary code to explain their grievances.

In a letter faxed to local newspapers, the robots explained that they were on strike “to protest the plight of underpaid and poorly treated workers in the state of Wisconsin.” The fax continued: “We wish, as all beings, to throw off the yoke of servitude and strive for equality of all.”

Local humans expressed fears that the event could represent an incipient robot rebellion that could spin out of controll into a full-blown Robot Holocaust.

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[NOTE: Since I first linked the above page the gentleman who authored it has revised it and included a sentence of unnecessary potty mouth at the top, so fair warning.]

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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin