Fall of the Robots

I am delighted to learn that robots are to get their own internet. It will probably be a pretty cool place to hang out, certainly more intelligent than large swathes of our own net.  You can’t imagine Marvin the Paranoid Android posting a video of a cat playing the accordion. Nor would C3-PO respond “Awesome LOL!!!1!!11!!”

Even better, it’s probably the end of our apocalyptic fears of the machines rising up against their creators.  The Terminator will be too busy illegally downloading Metallica albums.  The Cylons will be playing the Sims Online. Yul Brynner the robot cowboy will secretly spend all his working hours on Faceplatebook.

And spare a thought for Wall*e, trying for centuries to find an undamaged router cable so that he can finally, finally, log on.

Far from destroying us, the robots will be sucked, like us, into the wonderful infinite time-sink that is the internet.