I’ve been watching the Channel 4 drama series Humans with my wife.
It’s about a world very similar to our own, except that androids are commercially available to do your housework, or care for you if you’re ill or provide other services for the tense or frustrated or those who really want to have sex with a big lump of human-shaped plastic.
It throws up some interesting questions about how robots might replace humans in many jobs, whether they would legally count as people or machines and whether they might gain consciousness, rise up against us and make us their slaves.
I am not sure the robot reality is as useful, dangerous or sexy as sci-fi would have us believe, but I can’t… Read the full story