ok, about robots.

sure. two things.

first, this idea that robots should be smart isn't going to get us anywhere. there's no value in building highly intelligent androids. where robots have a function is simply that they are more productive than us. the focus ought to be on building physical ones, not intellectual ones.

second, our understanding of genetics is leaps and bounds ahead of what it was in asimov's time. a lot of the things he was thinking about applying to robots are better applied to genetic engineering, and we may actually see some of these things happen sooner. from a resource perspective, genetic engineering is more sustainable. but genetically engineering superhuman strength is obviously more perilous than hardcoding it into otherwise dumb as shit robotic systems.

i want robots, and i want mutant creatures, but i don't want androids or cyborgs. the former will make our lives easier. the latter will simply give us a set of ethical questions that will no doubt end in emancipation followed by social problems. android welfare. let's just not bother. let's keep robots stupid...

to be entirely clear - let's leave robots for production, and focus on genetic engineering and computer-human brain interfacing to move the species forwards.