Robots: Low-Voltage Ontological Currents

Aldiss, Brian W. "Robots: Low-Voltage Ontological Currents." Introduction to TMG.[HTTP://WWW.CLOCKWORKS2.ORG/WIKI/INDEX.PHP?TITLE=MECHANICAL_GOD,_THE:_MACHINES_IN_SCIENCE_FICTION]

On people's fascination with robots and other automata. Possible reasons include that "Robots are lonely people," and that in our time ". . . human beings have been required as never before to function as extensions of the machine" (8).