"Automata" but I agree with you, absolutely, and I was reading these comments hoping someone would make your point less cynically than I would have done myself-

"Automata" but I agree with you, absolutely, and I was reading these comments hoping someone would make your point less cynically than I would have done myself- which you did. For me, I could not read the article because of all the reflexive eye-rolling at what seems to me an obvious attempt (yet another one!) to grab attention by riding on the current trend of hyperbole. A "Coppernican" moment, indeed. Tsk tsk. If such comparisons don't just discredit the person making them, I don't know what will.