The Modern Day Taboo: Rise of AI and Robotics
Taboo... is a once prevalent and widely accepted fabric of a culture that is so deeply ingrained and efficient for the system that it manages to persist for long into it while the culture itself changes... when the culture fully transforms, this still persistent and accepted fabric becomes starkly visible as an alien or obsolete entity or the taboo. Thus as a matter of fact taboos are not a vile or erroneous outcome of the society, they are rather a well thought, profusely tested and once widely accepted part of the culture. But a point comes when the society takes a multifold leap and has to clutch to an altogether novel system, squeezing out the 'taboo' part of it off its new system. Moreover, the attorney of tagging a sub system as a taboo is generally bestowed to the ones in power or in majority (generally the newer generation). It's rarely a case when a minority or a weaker section or an older section comes out in the open and declares a subsystem of its era as a ta...