The Heifer In The Age Of Robots

I.

While he watches, the heifer is to be burned–its hide, flesh, blood and offal. Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight; its hide and its flesh and its blood, with its refuse, shall be burned.

Then the entire cow (the skin, meat, blood, and excrement) will be burned while he watches. And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.

And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned. And shall burn her in the sight of all, delivering up to the fire her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, and her dung.

And one hath burnt the cow before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, besides her dung, he doth burn. Offal, blood excrement, sight and skin, hide; its refuse shall meat, one to one to her skin, blood skin, she watches; the skin is skin, heifer, heifer, burned his blood, her skin is all.

And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned. And shall burn her in the sight of all, delivering up to the fire her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, and her dung.

And one hath burnt the cow before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, besides her dung, he doth burn.

II.

Some of the future trends for your school are evident in our recent purchases of educational computers and also with the new buildings for craft technology. The drudges of heavy and boringly repetitive tasks are disappearing from the factory and the workplace. Sharp minds are increasingly needed to programme the computers and to maintain the complex machinery in the age of robots.

There will be much scope for leisure, absorbing hobbies and a world-wide pattern of entertainment. In time, the majority of working folk will be occupied with the so-called service industries. We shall need many more caring and capable people for the human tasks of looking after the elderly, the young, the sick and the h———d.

Education and training programmes will surge forward again as young people and, perhaps, the not-so-young seek to widen their knowledge and develop a range of skills to equip themselves for a fuller life in a rapidly changing world.

The new technology and a time for plenty will not bring happiness in themselves. In all ages, contentment has come from believing in a purpose to life, from stretching your mind and body to their limits and so realizing your hidden talents, from the urge to help those around you, and from being loved.

Without these we shall all become as robots.