Robot Holocaust Part IDon'tRemember--Do You Want Fries With Your Apocalypse?

Not that human fast food restaurant managers are any great treat, but this is bound to cause trouble:

It Has Come to This: Computer Orders Restaurant Workers Around

Hyperactive Bob, the kitchen production management computer system from Hyperactive Technologies, is now being licensed to Zaxby's, a fast-food restaurant chain with locations in the Southern states. Zaxby's has 330 counter-service chicken specialty restaurants. This artificially intelligent computer system not only takes orders, it gives them as well.

Hyperactive Bob makes use of different forms of robotics technology to help manage fast food restaurants.

Like many elements of today's (and tomorrow's) nightmarish, technological dystopia, this concept has its antecedent in science-fiction, namely Manna, a system proposed by Marshall Brain in his novella-length story of the same name.

If you think that going through your day with a computer telling you what to do every minute sounds creepy, it gets much worse. In the story, human workers are really just the remote "manipulators" and "sensors" of the system. Hopefully, no one will tell the makers of Hyperactive Bob about the Manna story; it has too many practical suggestions for the enslavement of humans

Let's hope Hyperactive Bob doesn't learn to read lips....