PILGRIM: AuTCRONE
The AuTCRONE* is undertaking an isolated mission (PILGRIM) into our once green and pleasant land to report on how it is being affected by the global climate crisis.
AuTCRONE is a damaged unit, its physical functioning impaired by age-induced wear and tear. The link between this malfunctioning autonomous unit and the damaged environment it is investigating is noted and may prove a productive element in its data reporting function.
AuTCRONE uses it's biological unit as a mobile lab, to measure how its physical functioning is affected by the environmental stressors that it encounters through digital devices carried and worn on or in the biological unit.
Collected data is sent back to selected repositories residing in the City. Information is returned as both Qualitative and Quantitative data. Expression of the data will be determined by AuTCRONE as an expression of its autonomous thinking.
AuTCRONE’s secondary function is unattainable but must be attempted.
As a cyborg, it is compelled to abide by Asimov’s First and Second Law of Robotics. Taking the First Law, 'A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm,' as the basis for the secondary function command, AuTCRONE will remove plastic rubbish from the landscapes it is travelling through in an attempt to remove this harm from the environment.
(Note: The quantity of plastics in the environment means that AuTCRONE can never fulfil this mission – how this will impact the unit’s psychological functioning is yet to be determined)
*AuT = "Autonomous things," computers that function as autonomous entities without human direction, but freely moving and interacting with humans and other objects in order to carry out pre-determined mission parameters.
Crone = The word “crone” is synonym for old woman. It has associations with the old woman as witch or hag and more specifically a woman with magic or arcane power.
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