Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

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

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

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

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.

You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.

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