No, Robots will Not Take Over and Rule the Planet … and this is why.

One of Hollywood's oldest tropes is the robotic usurpation of humankind. It makes for compelling thrillers and science fiction. The variety of narrative twists possible are in-numerable. Terminator, a luminary of the genre, implanted this fear as efficiently as Jaws did in cultivating a phobia of sharks into an entire generation. As narratives go, everything else pales in comparison -- a cautionary tale regarding one's lust for power which inevitably capsizes when it surmounts its peak.