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Escape Pod 890: The Mechanical Turk Has a Panic Attack

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The Mechanical Turk as a Panic Attack

Escape Bud is the weekly podcast from Escape Artist Foundation of 501c3 Nonprofit. This week, we look at a near future science fiction story that looks at some of the potential fallouts of changes in society. Francis Bass narrates as Gab tries to be the best machine she could be even though she could be a better server if she were allowed to be a human. Our closing quotation this week is from Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.

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