For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.