Eli the ethnographer

 

 Eli the ethnographer


the year 2065, Houston TX. As I enter the hospital there is a robot at the counter beeping and bopping. it sees me and asks me what injury I have. I tell it that I do not have an injury and that I am an ethnographer here to observe and report on the behavior of the robots. she explains to me the different rooms and their purposes, then tells me that I may observe anything I want from the hallways and that I may not enter the rooms. as I am walking the halls looking into all the rooms I notice that all the robots communicate to each other with different pitched beeps and boops. I find this very secretive because they can speak any language but decided to make their own language instead. (I wonder why that is) I keep walking down the hallway and see a group of robot arms performing surgery at a very fast pace which amazes me. as I continue walking I come across a robot eating oil that seems to be comercialized in a way that makes it seem like a snack. I eventually make the full loop around the hospital and go back to the reception area. the robot at the desk asks me about my visit and I ask it why they comunicate by beeps and it tells me that it is more efficient than talking in any other language and that it also make a sort of robot culture that makes it so that the robots of the world have some sort of culture they can conform to. I tell it thank you and leave the hosptal with my report.

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