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122/ In Search of Afro-Solarpunk w/ Rob Cameron

The Fire These Times

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The Robot Slash Slave Dynamic

The very idea of a robot is based off of, you know, slaves. The way that it was interpreted for our audience or this audience, it has a different ring to it. And so when you take these ideas and you kind of simplify something that can be digested in 90 minutes, you're going to lose something unless you're careful. So they will be able to say, okay, in the grand scheme of our species, we're kind of the immortal ones here on planet Earth. We have a different hardware than other people but I don't think any of them are quite as good at taking care of themselves like humans do.

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