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  • FUTURES

Make Humanity Great Again!

Take back control.
By
  1. Ian Stewart

    1. Ian Stewart’s latest SF novel is Rock Star. He is sole winner of the Bloody Stupid Johnson award for Innovative Uses of Mathematics, and an honorary wizard of Unseen University.

A black metal baseball cap bearing the letters MHGA in red features an open compartment out of which bullets fall

Illustration by Jacey

The scriptwriter for the next President of Earth pondered the choice between ‘outrage’ and ‘oppression’. Like any modern android, LNR6072431 — Eleanor for short — was constructed from biosynth and neuromimetics, as close to a genuine human as Lyncon-Nixxon Robotics could get. Yet most people still found androids creepy, thanks to some genetic quirk of humanity that LNR’s artels had yet to crack. Unless the rumours were true, and they’d perfected an android so realistic that even humans fell for the illusion.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01906-y

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