Almost 200 years after Mary Shelley made AI an object of fear and awe in Frankenstein, humanity is looking at a proliferation of super-smart creations: robots. Automated technology of all sorts – from industrial to humanoid to seemingly harmless conveyors of "artificial smartness" – will soon transform our lives. But need we fear it? Will AI take our jobs away? Or will robots, by handling all the mechanics and rote work necessary for economic productivity, liberate us to be more creative, caring and "humanly intelligent"? What, in the end, can humans do that machines cannot? I sat down with Kevin Kelly to get some answers, as he lays them out in his new book, The Inevitable: Understanding the Twelve Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future," out June 6th. Take a listen over at Ricochet, and read edited excerpts below. PETHOKOUKIS: The book obviously is about technology but it's not a book about gadgets. Thank you, that's a synopsis of the general drift of the book, which is to ...