Quite a lot of robot news today. You’d think that robots were finally happening. I based my whole life on that premise decades ago soon after seeing the Heathkit Educational RObot. Computers had suddenly arrived. Surely having them interact with the real world would be next. And yet in 2016 I still clean my toilet with a brush whose design is unchanged since Roman times.

What’s stranger is even with gobs of relevant experience in computers and mechanics, an actual appropriate engineering degree, and more enthusiasm than anyone I’ve ever met (my odds of avoiding a violent premature death improve directly with improvements in autonomous vehicles), I feel like the chances of me being able to get a job working on non-military robots is extremely low. In the city where I live (8th populous in the USA) the odds are nil.

All of which reminds me, I need to clean the toilet.