Adrielle Green
“The Robot Invasion”
By: Charlie Gillis
Imagine a world where the dirty, dangerous and difficult tasks of human labor are
no longer performed by humans. One would think that’d be pretty great right? Charlie
Gillis, award winning writer for Maclean’s magazine (Post by Charlie Gillis –
Macleans.ca, 2001) (Canada’s only national weekly current affairs magazine) (About Us
– Macleans.ca, 2001) gives information and depicts optimism on this view in his article
“The Robot Invasion.” He wrote of the history, present state of, and possible coming up
of robotic technology. In sum, he states that in the near future, robotic advancements
will completely change society, revolutionizing both factory work and household chores.
The idea of machines doing the work of humans (or mimicking nature as some
