Wallpaper*  |  September 2017
THE ROBOTS ARE COMING
One of the reasons that the Japanese have led the charge in robot development and adoption is that there is no modern Promethean myth in Japanese culture, no Frankenstein’s monster (that, and an ageing population who require robo-care). In the West, we still suspect that generating electro-charged life is against nature and will create existential threat; that, Terminator-like, the robot legions will eventually turn against us and pull the
plug on their masters. More immediately, we worry that they will take our jobs. However as Jonathan Bell explains in his piece that accompanies our robot fashion shoot , robots will become ever more useful, but we should not fear that usefulness.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Wallpaper* September 2017.