If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

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.

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

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.

Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.