Sales Pitch

In “Sales Pitch”, there are elements of robots and space travel apparent in the storyline. The robots seem to have taken over the planet and the people fear the power the robots have gained. Mr. Morris, the main character uses a space ship to travel to his job that is located on a planet far away from earth. Everything seems to be moving fast in their society. An example of extrapolation in this piece is the robots that follow the people in the streets. Forcing them to listen to their sales pitches and consider buying their products. Another example is the ads that were placed everywhere in space. They seemed to be very distracting and overbearing. To me, they seemed to be the problem behind many of the accidents that were happening along Morris’s commute. One last example of extrapolation that was present was the fasrad. The fasrad could do all of the normal things humans could do. When the fasrad was first introduced in the story I though it was the robot’s first step to take over the world. I thought that this story was alright. It was kind of boring throughout the beginning and middle. Even though I didn’t like these two parts of the story, I still though that the author ended it in a very interesting way that I never expected.