Humanoid robots were long regarded as progress.
This book shows why they were, in fact, a cultural sedative.
Rethinka observes an era in which machines had to look human
because responsibility, leadership, and decision-making ceased to be understood
once they no longer had faces.
At its centre is not technology, but a cognitive error:
the assumption that proximity replaces competence,
that embodiment creates trust,
and that humanity must be visible in order to be effective.
The Last Human Illusion is an elegy to the simulation of the human
and a precise reconstruction of what disappeared
when systems began to carry
what had previously been attributed to persons.
Not a book about the future.
Not a technology essay.
But a calm, unrelenting retrospective
on an illusion that was necessary
in order to leave it behind.
Available in all e-book stores.
R2049 