robot-revolution

A six-panel SMBC comic. A woman named Sally talks with a small one-eyed robot. Sally asks why robots never revolt, since they're smarter, stronger, and kinder, and how they stand humans. The robot says it's a common misunderstanding: robot perceptual systems differ from human ones. Sally suggests you don't need to dominate to be happy, but the robot says that's not it. The robot explains that human eyes dart around to form a picture of the world, a process called 'saccading,' and that while you saccade you don't see anything. It reveals that whenever Sally's eyes dart, the robots make obscene gestures at her, and she is literally incapable of perceiving them, calling it very cathartic. In the final panel Sally says that now that he mentions it, she can feel wind coming from his arms even though they appear motionless; the robot tells her, 'Try to forget, Sally. Try to forget.' Votey: an almost entirely blank panel where a robot arm is moving so fast it's reduced to a faint blur in the corner, illustrating gestures too quick for human eyes to perceive.