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Ali Asif

Disgruntled employee; sneaky, petty rivalling companies; or downright electro or mechanophobes. Who could it be and why? This are the questions Dominic seems to have thrown at us. So intense

Achinth Murali

It’s called programmed obsolescence. It’s like planned obsolescence, except it’s designed in The hardware of the product.

JoeMcGoe

The scary thing is it's only malware to the user and the bots perspective. For Stirling, she's functioning exactly as intended, which would be why the engineers never found anything when running routine diagnostics on her. Most likely if the did decide to run a code trace and make a dev ticket about it, they would find this was feature a requested by the business and there is nothing they could do short of a model upgrade.

JoeMcGoe

Worse yet. When you really think about it, the company basically gave her and her nandoird friends the equivlent of robot cancer just to make a buck. Scarier thought... given that Emmie is a gen 1 nandroid. The word legacy in "legacy EOL protocal" for gen 1 bot would imply ALL the Stirling bots have this. Not just the nandroid line (Well mabey not military bots. You typically dont want to piss off the folks who make the laws). Also, Puts a new spin on that moment in the strling tv spot part 2 when I that bot on display malfunctioned in front of Mr Stirling and he stared intensely at it then mentioned something about failure leads to success. That must be when the idea came to him. (That's right I think Stirling is a Thomas Edison. Stole credit from brighter minds .. who was that lab coat guy with Stirling in all those old photos?)

JoeMcGoe

On the bright side she belongs to a family consisting of a big shot lawyer and a marketing executive and her disappearance has greatly affected the family.... Marketing, as in how to make something seem appealing? Lawyers, as in potential legislation and how to properly navigate the law? Hmmm smells like robo civil rights might be right around the corner. And you bet that all the bots will not stand by peacefully after hearing about this new robo cancer the companies are pushing. As John f Kennedy once said "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"

Jefferson Gabler

Maybe one off the workers want destroy the bots

Bonfire Jv

planned obsolescence... but triggerd too soon on her.

Liam Butler

There's a really dark story like this involving Jack Nance (the start of "Eraserhead") and his wife Kelly Van Dyke