"The Upgrade"
| Title | "The Upgrade" |
| Year for Search | 2006 |
| Authors | Iagnemma, Karl [D.](b. 1972) |
| Secondary Title | Nerve.com |
| Date Published | 2006 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Something of a flawed utopia. The story is about a man who has what he thinks of as the perfect female robot who cooks, cleans, and provides sex whenever and however he wants it. He has an upgrade installed that gives her the ability to reason, and she walks out on him. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future. Ed. The Editors of Nerve.Com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2007), 36-45. |
| URL | http://www.nerve.com/fiction/iagnemma/leaveyourrobotlover? Posted June 2006. Accessed October 10, 2011. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The author (b. 1972) is a robotics specialist at MIT with a doctorate from MIT. |
| Full Text | 2006 Iagnemma, Karl [D.] (b. 1972). “The Upgrade.” Nerve.com http://www.nerve.com/fiction/iagnemma/leaveyourrobotlover? Posted June 2006. Accessed October 10, 2011. Rpt. in 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future. Ed. The Editors of Nerve.Com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2007), 36-45. PSt Something of a flawed utopia. The story is about a man who has what he thinks of as the perfect female robot who cooks, cleans, and provides sex whenever and however he wants it. He has an upgrade installed that gives her the ability to reason, and she walks out on him. The author is a robotics specialist at MIT with a doctorate from MIT. |
