The Priory of Universal Truth

Its long been a dream of technologists to create an obedient class of mechanized slave to do our bidding while a number-crunching box of tricks takes care of the computing... what could possibly go wrong in such a brave new world? Everything, if our respected science fiction writers are to be believed... we have a dark and despairing future - society going to wrack and ruin - but what the hell... at least we'll have hover cars and big guns! Science and technology can certainly do a lot to help in the struggle that is life; battling the elements, curing disease & injury, prolonging leisure time by providing faithful robot servants, developing quicker and more efficient ways of harming and killing each other, etc, etc... but what happens when it all slips beyond our control and our newly sentient creations turn against us? Even if we manage to avoid the robot revolution... are we in danger of becoming a soulless society, utterly dependent on cold emotionless science & technology to survive and progress?

Robots in Fact & Folklore, in Fiction & Film, in Fun & Games and Online (links coming soon)