If you haven’t been waiting to welcome our future robot masters, this book offers a nice summary of how far they’ve come and how soon they’ll be…excuse me there’s a metallic rapping at the door…

Waiting for Tobor

They came for the laborers, and I did nothing,
they came for the clerks, and I did nothing,
they came for the secretaries,
no, wait, I never actually saw a secretary,
but I hear they were the backbone of organizations.
They came for the teachers, truck drivers, astronauts, cabbies, scientists, and everyone else.
Along the way they came for the poets too.
But when they came for me I was l already gone,
long gone.

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