Jericho: Beep Borp Blurp!

I remember thinking somewhere in my teens that R2-D2 was ridiculous! I didn't have a problem with the idea that a wheeled trash can could be super smart, not to mention brave. I had a problem with all of those silly beeps and whirs and other noises. Why not just give every robot the ability to talk. C3-P0 could talk, why not R2? Besides, who would be able to understand all of those noises? R2 needed Three-Pio around just to interperet!

Today I chucked my backpack in the hatch and got into the car. Steph drove us to work. As we were driving, this pitiful sound came from the hatch. My cell phone needed to be charged and it makes a pitiful blur-bib sound when it does. You can almost hear it saying "Feed me!" or "I'm dying!" I felt compelled to get to work faster to plug in my pet...ur, um, cell phone.

Not only do machines "talk" in beeps and boops here, in this future, but I can understand them without being told what the sounds mean and I'm conditioned to fulfill the machine's needs. Soon I'll be saying "As you wish, Master Moto!"