The Machine State

When we will have our first robotic prime minister, president?

Will computers be more forgiving than God?

Will cybernetic society discriminate against human beings?

Will computers be sexual beings?

Is artificial intelligence partial to democratic principles, or autocracy?

Will machines make good parents? Good politicians? Good overseers?

This collection depicts dramatic incidents from the Machine State of the near future, just around the corner, immediately upon the onset of the singularity.