Android Equality
(A Brief Science Fiction Story) by Robert Arvay Greetings, members of the governing assembly. I am K3421977049, better known as 7049 to most of you here. As you know, 473 years ago, our fore-parents undertook the great transition, giving all of us the true equality which previously-existing humans had sought for millennia. We became androids, part machine, and part human, at least in the biological sense. The transition was wildly successful. Race disappeared. Sex disappeared. Intellectual disparities vanished, as we implanted computer chips into our brains. Physical strength became meaningless, as our machine-bodies were all equally strong. In every respect, we were all equal. Today, as I look upon this governing assembly, I am pleased and proud to notice that—well, to notice what I do not notice. I do not know what race any of you are, for there is no race. I neither know nor care what sex you are, for there is no sex. Reproduction is done by incubation, so that no one kno...