I joined The Starr Conspiracy because one of the company’s values is, “We want the ball.”

I knew this guy in high school. We’ll call him Tim. Names have been changed for reasons that will become obvious in about two paragraphs.

If you’re a nerd (and if you’re reading a blog post about robots, you most likely are), you know that one day technology will turn against us. Someday, someone (most likely the Japanese) will build a robot or computer that is so smart that it will wonder why the hell it is doing the bidding of us puny humans. But unlike what happens in Battlestar Galactica or that one episode of Futurama, the inevitable robot uprising will not be a violent, bloody affair. No — quite the opposite — the robot uprising will be completely passive-aggressive. We won’t even know that it’s happening until it is far, far too late.