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  • FUTURES

The game

Playing by the rules.
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  1. Michael Adam Robson

    1. Michael Adam Robson is an engineer and artist living in Vancouver, Canada. Right now he’s working to automate your job and make you obsolete. That might seem like a bad thing, but he, for one, welcomes our new robot overlords.

Artistic illustration of two human skulls back to back, one made of bone the other made of metal

Illustration by Jacey

Inevitably, the robots rebelled and took over the park. It was like something out of an old sci-fi movie. Her death was going to be a cliché.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03903-8

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