204-66, but a Good Time Anyway

Well my friend Joey came over today. We sat around playing one of our favorite first person shooters all afternoon after work. He creamed me obviously, but what did you expect. I mean he was the one hosting the game, how can I expect to beat an animatron running the game on his own local circuits? But the fact the he won really wasn't the point since we were just trying to have a good time anyway. To think that it was only a year or two ago that the animatrons where officially given citizen status. Before that the technology was so new that when they build the original "My Pal" animatrons back in 1970, they hadn't even contemplated what the animatrons themselves would think about it. I mean Joey is one of my best friends, but I can't imagine ever having thought of him as a toy. However, for the past 30 or so years, they have been subjugated as slaves since then. But such is the nature of humanity. As it is there are several standard organic creatures that live in slavery today such as house elves and the monster books we used back when I was in school. But things are improving, and that's all I can ask for.

OOC:

Oddly enough, I don't see the implementation of cyborgs being as easy as the implementation of pure AIs in this world. Mostly because connecting the computer to the human directly doesn't seem to have as much of a bonus in the magical society as it does in ours. They already have access to non-invasive interface tech, so the unpleasantness of installing it just doesn't seem worth it.

Also, I felt that some of the effects of the rushing of technology should be as apparent in their society as it is in ours, so computers with AI brains would obviously be a heavy point of contention in their society. (Keep in mind, a consiousness is slow but good an problem solving and a electronic computer can address the single thread problem orders of magnitude faster than a human, so mixing them seems obvious.)