Brian Aldiss Super-Toys Last All Summer Long

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Modern scientific and technological progress into utopia is hard to achieve without any help from humans. As technology grows humans are distant, lack of entertainment, social relationships and family relationships. In the story of Childhood’s End, Arthur C Clarke said that artificial intelligence from aliens makes this earth better place. In the story of Childhood’s end, when the overlords came to earth, they said that they want to save Humankind. They want to make earth poverty less and to end the war. The overlords are very high intellectual, powerful, and they have the best technology than humans. With small changes in humankind, they want to change the fate of earth to the golden age. In this story, the overlords have the vast technological power which makes them fearless, boundary-less on humankind. They can spy on anyone and anywhere, they could listen and see where ever they want. They can travel in their ships with light speed to the earth atmosphere, they could harm without making any wounds. They could cover sunlight with their ships over a city, they could change the gravity of the planet.
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It’s true, and very interesting quote in my opinion, because Mrs. Swinton in this story tried to love her son as most mother supposed to do. She is not a bad mother nor is she angry with her son. It’s just that her son is not human, he is an artificial toy who is substituting place of Swinton’s children. Our planet is overcrowded that they need permission to have children. They were pure alone, no friends, no family just the couple. According to Mr. Swinton, obesity is the new world’s problem, not the malnutrition. He said “though three quarters of the overcrowded world are starving, we are lucky here to have more than enough, thanks to population control. Obesity’s our problem, not malnutrition” (Aldiss,