automation-2

A color comic with a single wide panel. A balding, bespectacled man labeled Doctor Chang sits at a desk looking glum, holding a pen. An off-panel voice asks, "What are you doing, Doctor Chang?" He answers, "Writing a book about how we should worry more about automation!" Beside him, a robot's arms hold up an elegant hardcover book titled "ELECTRIC DUSK" and say, "During this conversation, I've anticipated the content of your book, compiled it, and published it in this elegant hardcover edition." A caption below reads, "So ends the last human job." The joke: even the act of warning about automation gets instantly automated. Votey (black-and-white aftercomic): the same robot, drawn as a simple shape with one eye, adds, "I took the liberty of eliminating your constant mewling use of adverbs."