We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

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.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

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.

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

Technology changes, but people stay the same.

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