If androids were like today's electronics

[petrea_mitchell]

In The Register today, Alistair Dabbs considers the dissonance between the sf vision of indestructible, immortal killer androids and today's short-lived, disposable electronics.

I would like to invite fantasy authors and screenwriters – not Tezuka or Asimov, they're dead – to take a peek at the electronics at the back of my bottom drawer.

Far from living forever, androids would be lucky to survive until next Thursday before triggering a TITSUP* subroutine. Computers, electronics, machines in general… they all spontaneously fall to bits and require insane levels of constant maintenance just to keep chugging along.