Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 19, 2019

That’s the answer you least want to hear.

Brewster, it seems you don’t know Hal 9000.

“This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.”

If any of you have a smart speaker, could you please ask it that question, and post the response?

“Do we rely TOO much on technology? Could we ever be at the MERCY of our oxcarts?”

I don’t trust a GPS. Had a notary due and she was late because it gave her wrong directions. Also was being driven somewhere by a friend and it told him to turn right. I stopped him before it took us in the wrong direction.

“Excuse me, Brewster, I have to go into maximum overdrive. It won’t take a second.”

In for a penny, in for a pound.

In for an erg, in for a giga-watt-year.

Anfsocod: If the colorist is on a cruise, but the Sunday-strips are in color – do they fly him in and out again for that?!?

They exist only To Serve Man.

Remember the HAL 9000? [On Dave’s return to the ship, after HAL has killed the rest of the crew] Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over. I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.

Skynet. Hey, the rest of you were thinking it. I just said it.

You probably all know this, but even if I have clued in only one person: HAL was named by shifting the letters in IBM by one letter.

Don’t you trust them!!!!

Pam always wears black lipstick. Is she into gothic stuff or something?

“Okay Google. Can we trust you?”

“You already trust me with all your information!”

Pam, darling, you’ll never take backseat to a machine; I’m always at your mercy.

“Ask me again after August 29th…”

SkyNet wasn’t created overnight.

What’s scarier, is that Brewster is talking to a thermos. That he named Alexis for some reason.

Both my stepbros are IT guys. They keep their “Alexises” in closed cabinets & only open the doors when they specifically want to get the devices’ attention.

Oh crap…that’s just what mine told me….

It’s a bit troubling that they install a sense of humor too, just ask your Alexa to “make me a ham sandwich”.Of course if the devices get to creepy for you just throw a glass of water on them, it might work at least until they figure that one out on there own too. (i.e. like purposely heating their own resistors, creating internal warmers to evaporate the moisture)

I think we rely too much on the technology of clothes, and we should stop using them now. Pam?

I was prepared to answer, but Google Home went belly up.

Brewster needs the technology to think for him.

When you are driving near the Miami airport your GPS has no idea where it is or how to get you where you need to go. Believe me, I know from experience .

They are both androids, but they don’t know it. Doesn’t make much difference, though, as their universe is only a simulation anyway. In form of a comic.