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.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

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.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

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

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.