Robot Wars!

“You’re opening the doors for everything else. You got instant replay, next year it’ll be something else. They’re going to have robots playing the game one day, you watch.”—Angels OF Torii Hunter, on reports that MLB will start using instant replay to make difficult home run calls.

See also this unnerving development.

Or worse yet, this.

Well, Andy Kaufman tried to warn us of this evil way back in the 1980s, an era that was blissfully free of robot-inspired paranoia.

So, Robots were to be feared in the 1950s, welcomed in the 1960s, feared in the 1970s, welcomed in the 1980s, feared and respected in the 1990s and ... slept with now? It's a logical progression.