Technology is sometimes slowed for a time but it never stops. Many of the horrors envisioned will probably come true at some point. For instance, I don't see a

Technology is sometimes slowed for a time but it never stops. Many of the horrors envisioned will probably come true at some point. For instance, I don't see any reason that semi-autonomous killer robots need to be confined to governments. It seems that (in time) a small group of people could eventually build a substantial number of semi-autonomous or remote controlled killing devices on their own and use them for crime or terrorism. I expect something this will happen at least once at some point and probably more than once. Frankly, the the future availability of "hacker" bio-engineering scares me much more than A.I. or robotics. But, there will be incalculable benefits to humanity from both as well. So I think we should embrace that and adapt. The future is coming.... like it or not. It is good to be warned of dangers, we probably won't avoid them anyway given our past behavior (have they figured out what to do with spent nuclear material yet?), but a warning is good. I think our best option is to be prepared to adapt and recognize that things are going to change substantially relatively soon. Maybe this will be the time humanity recognizes the world is a small place and we are all on it together and problems need to effectively be addressed at a global scale. But how much trauma there will be before this recognition occurs I don't know.