Why Aren't We Worrying About This?

To those who are so extremely fearful of werewolves, vampires, demons, and the Fey, I ask along with prestigious political blogger Matt Yglesias why we are so complacent about the much greater threat of out-of-control technology (re: Elliot Spitzer's proposal for robots in schools):

After the human race is enslaved by robots, there are going to be small rebel groups hiding out somewhere and Elliot Spitzer’s going to be writing op-eds about how “no one could have predicted” that the robots would rebel and overthrow their masters. And it’ll be left to DFH bloggers to observe that this is in fact one of the most widely predicted scenarios in all of science fiction. From the proto-SF of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein through to Karel Capek’s R.U.R. and The War Against the Newts all the way up through Terminator and The Matrix. Yes, yes, yes eventually the Butlerian Jihad will allow us to re-overthrow the Thinking Machines and establish human rule but do we really want to fall into that trap?

Just say no to robots. And certainly say no to robots in our schools.

I can only agree. We cannot be too careful regarding this threat.