Everyone Died+My iPhone Stopped Working: An Oral History of The Robot Apocalypse
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In the end, the robots win.
But you already knew that.
"Everyone Died + My iPhone Stopped Working" is a collection of short interviews with some of the survivors. People who have tremendous insight into the rise of Artificially Intelligent machines or, more often, don't.
Why did the robots rise up? What did they want? Why couldn't they be stopped? Can they be stopped now? Is humanity doomed? And what the f--k is going on with the squirrels?
You will get the answers to all of these questions. Or some of these questions. Or none of these questions. We'll see.
I will be updating this once a week until I run out of stuff that I find funny. Then I'm done.
Cover art courtesy of the hilarious and ridiculously talented Dave Pressler. (http://www.davepresslerart.com)
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