Opinion: We trust strangers more than colleagues

Updated August 11 2017 - 1:58pm, first published 1:48pm
Passion for chickens: Can robots really replace all the weird and wonderful interests and abilities that make us human?
Passion for chickens: Can robots really replace all the weird and wonderful interests and abilities that make us human?

Have you seen the movie Chicken People? It's a charming documentary about people who breed chickens and show them at agricultural fairs. There's plenty in it about chickens, but it's really a movie about people and their passions. What else but passion, or perhaps obsession, would drive people to spend 24 hours straight washing and blow-drying chickens without being paid? Or to hold the breeding details of a family tree of four generations of chickens in their heads so they can select just the right mating pair to hatch babies with the perfect comb, wing span and feather pattern?

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