Specialization

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specialization

Title text: People who say we'll become one with the machines should really specify the machines they're talking about.

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Written by: Zach weinersmith

Art by: Abby howard

According to sociology, about 5% of human beings are super weird.

Average

Weird

These guys

As the human population grew, the absolute quantity of super weird people expanded.

I've just calculated a 73% Sturdier bricklaying pattern that would also require fewer bricks

Business leaders discovered surprising opportunity..

It's now possible to

Build a furniture facility and

Staff it entirely with

People who experience

Transcendence when

Monitoring chair parts

For defects!

Soon, regular people were less able to find work

It says here you have 25 years of

Experience at all levels of engine repair,

But your psych profile doesn't say anything

About an erotic attraction to unpaid overtime.

But-

I'm sorry.

The strange people were clustered by type,

Sometimes I lie awake at

Night fantasizing about

A more efficient

Cardboard box

Design.

Marry

Me.

And more average people didn't possess the resources to have children,

I wish I'd married a real man, with pathological desire to

Find multiple uses

For leftover

Industrial

Cellulose!

I won't

Have this argument again, I won't!

As the baseline human being became stranger, the outliers became

Ever more use useful.

It says here you have 50 years of experience in plumbing, but none

Of your extremities are shaped

Like Allen wrenches.

But-

I'm

Sorry.

Humanity speciated into endless forms most functional-

Automotive reparians

Chemical enginese

Computer Programmerfolk

Tap-a

Tap-a

Tap-a

Tap-a

When the time came to merge with our tools, there was no humanity left in us to oppose the change.

We want to put some electrodes

On your cerebellum so you're no

Longer able to stop thinking

About industrial solvents.

My whole life

Has been leading

Up to this moment.

There are no machines. There is no nature.

Only the drive to ever greater heights

Of productivity,

It's better this way.

Can you imagine what it was like being distracted by love, hope, and beauty

When you really needed to focus on making smoother

Beryllium

Spheres?

What a

Nightmare

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