You can't make this shit up

Androids roam the streets and parks looking for diseased kittens while the humans shelter in underground shopping malls that never close. The androids are controlled by remotely based AI and here is no human interface with them, much less control. The control rooms are airless, dark, sterile  environments of biodegradable plastic, synthesised metals and carbon. In the shopping malls the humans browse, eat and drink as if there is no purpose to life other than spending time in an enclosed, self-contained environment where night and day are the same. Subway trains bring them to, and take them away from, the malls and they never know how to get there, other than embarking oo the carriage of their choice on the line marked as “mall access.”  Each mall is ringed with hotels, catering for all budgets, for the weary shopper who doesn’t feel like returning home quite yet. No shopper has to carry shopping bags. Their purchases are despatched directly to their homes from the giant distribution centres where all retail stock Is stored. The in store shopping experience consists only of picking the desired items, and perhaps trying on a sample of selected clothing. The food courts form central hubs within each mall where the hungry and thirsty shoppers can eat as little or as much as they like, several times in each 24 hour period. Food and drink are the only products provided and consumed on site and not shipped to the shopper’s home.

 

Meanwhile, the androids are continuously on the move, requiring no downtime for rest and recovery unless an infrequent malfunction occurs that requires a repair and maintenance crew, more androids, to collect the defective unit and return it to the workshops for attention. Mostly it would be a software issue that’s easily fixed. If it’s a question of a defective working part, the android is decomissioned because it’s both easier and cheaper to construct a new unit than to repair mechanical defects.  If it weren’t so untidy, those units would simply be abandoned where they finally ceased to operate.