I didn't realize how attached I was to little bits of rare metals and micro chip technology until my cell phone crashed. It happened on morning as I was about to embark on a lovely day filled with activities with family and friends. My cell phone quietly notified me that it needed an "update" according to the phones manufacturer.

So, while getting ready for my lovely day, I hit, "update".

Suddenly, and without any irony whatsoever, my phone said "349jjl .... boot failed... 8Hju37111....11...000000 terminate.... blah... can't whatever....111009hUtTT version 1.9. ...."

And there went my day.

Still, I was hopeful! Ever the optimist, I just informed my family that we'd just pop by our carriers store and get them to "fix the problem". Four hours later, I was walking out of the store with another phone and the loss of some pretty vital information.

Thus began a week of staring at a phone that I hated while waiting for a "new" refurbished phone to be sent via mail.

And here I thought that I was a girl that could live off the land and fend for myself if need be. The truth was looking at me through a camera phone.... I was trapped in this world of micro-chips and must-have apps.

The world is turning into one giant robot, or bot as we call them. And no one seems to care. Everywhere we turn we see people glued to a hand-held device. Heck, even our books and newspapers are now digital.

There are bots working for you while you sleep. You can have Facebook post for you if you're too lazy to log on. Don't have a lot of followers on Twitter? No problem, you'll get plenty of feeds from Olive Garden, Wendys, and Dicks Sporting Goods among the many. Ask Bing or Google a question and you'll soon find ads popping up based on your question. (I often post queries to throw the trail, like "How to cook a human baby" or "Best Art Gallery to Steal a Monet from" or "How to hide body". It's important to have fun with it. If you get locked up, well, just ask your lawyer to make internet access part of the plea deal).

Some people take the robotics thing a bit too far. Like people who implant headphones in their ears. Or, the guy who implanted a camera in the back of his head. I swear, ever since Ironman was released as a movie, people just seem to go crazy.

They've even got robotic horses.


Really, shouldn't we start thinking about making Robots more Human instead of the other way around?






Or. Maybe that's a bad idea.