“Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.”
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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.
In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped, ' I focus on neural implants.
Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
