File 14: Would You Like Sothing from the Human Face Series?
Cyborgs had beco fairly widespread, but they had not overco the barrier of the human form. If the silhouette of the human body was altered too much, specialized movent software had to be installed which seed to alter the human mind into sothing else.
Due to this, humans still operated tools with their fingers and used pens to write or draw.
However...
“Honey, look. It’s a frying pan with artificial skin attached. Because of the heat detection sensors, it says we can say goodbye to burnt food!”
“That soft, flesh-colored frying pan scares !! It looks like an evil book from the Cthulhu mythos!!”
“This ladle has lips. It tastes the contents and displays the result nurically. How cute.”
These pots and cutting boards and the like with incredibly realistic human ears or noses or whatever attached were known as Half Appliances. I could not understand how my young wife could be calling them “cute”. Perhaps I was just an old-fashioned type of person.
I of course understood that it was nothing more than using cyborg technology to attach sensors that surpassed the ability of the human senses, but still.
“Honey, are you bored because this is the cooking section?”
“N-no, that’s not it. I just find it suspicious that an area filled with ears and noses can be called the ‘cooking section’.”
“I guess a guy would prefer the section with the digital caras and such. I think they have ones with eyeballs for seeing super long distances.”
“That’s scary!! That’s really scary!! Am I the only one that finds an SLR cara that blinks and has eyelashes to be horrifying!?”
Cri rates had dropped ever since eyeballs had been attached to security caras, but I thought that was because it made you feel there was so strange, raw gaze on your back.
They were very unpopular when used in apartnt complexes or hotels.
“Oh, right. Honey, you said you wanted so tools for yard work, right? I think they have the lawnmowers over there.”
“All I see are machines with multiple arms covered in sharp fingernails and machines with mouths filled with tons of giant human teeth.”
“Yes. Those might be a bit big for our house.”
What my young wife was saying seed a bit off. Actually, looking at society at large, it might have been my opinion that was a bit off.
I didn’t like how they had attached realistic human eyes and noses to the front of bullet trains as sensors. I knew it was more efficient that way, but I just didn’t like it.
The shape of humans themselves had not changed too much.
However, the technology still remained. And the idea of a more convenient life in the future had remained as well. However, to reach it, the technology had spread to everything around humans rather than the humans themselves.
Thanks to this, cell phones had ear drums built in and portable ga systems had artificial synapses inside.
The way of the world changed quickly.
Just as adults had once been unable to keep up with the society of the internet, I was unable to keep up with these psychedelic changes to the scenery.
“Do you want a new electric razor?”
“You need to replace the artificial blood in those too quickly, so no.”
“Yes, filling it with oxygen again and again wears it out.”
“Speaking of artificial blood, we need to replace the blood in the fridge before long, don’t we? They’re having a sale over there.”
“We can’t. Ours is a Carrier QW2. It can’t use Type B. But we should buy so cerebrospinal fluid. The flyer ntioned a multi-pack.”
On our way, we passed by a dog-type pet robot. It seed to be a display model. It was a product that would bleed if you hurt it but would cause no guilt if you broke it.
“I wonder if these appliances will ever take on the sa form as humans.”
If they developed that far, I felt the grotesqueness would disappear.
But...
“We can’t have that.”
“Why not?”
“Because then we would just leave everything to the appliances and never move an inch. That’s no different from being bedridden.”
Perhaps she was right.
Old peddler ladies from the old days had carried around an unbelievable amount of things without much trouble.
“But...”
“What is it, honey?”
“Then I’m not sure who controls who.”
“?”
“I an.” I paused for a second. “We buy all these tools to make our own lives easier, but the strength of our legs and back are being decided by how convenient these tools are. ...You could almost say that we are being remade into forms that make it easier to use these appliances.”
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