Please don't feed the robots

"As our technologies change the world, the responsibility only grows deeper for each of us to take an active role in shaping it the way we want--not the other way around."-Ray It's what we teach; it's what we expect from the world and expect our students to understand. When I was a teenager growing up in a working class town, I can recall the horror stories of robots which would take over our jobs and that would make human workers redundant….literally. It turned out that the'robots' of the time were actually automated processes and machinery with little or no sign of the robots my over active imagination conjured up after years of watching sci-fi films. Jobs were not lost en masse in my little town and humans were not rendered redundant…well not by mechanical beasts anyway.