It has been covered by every news network, complete with handy visuals, because a standard corporate unveil is now a news story – clumsy CEO wrecks own vehicle. It’s not relegated to the tech or motoring pages any more

Take one up-and-coming young professional, add a singular crusty old executive, multiply that by a brand new task management software, square root an innocent staff and divide the whole thing by lackluster email communication. The sum total equals conflict. The young buck and the old timer are blaming each other for getting behind. The project is dead and the money is burned.

That’s the net neutrality debate in a nutshell.

The year is 207X. Corruption, crime and poverty reign supreme. Humans and Lilim (humanoid robots) co-exist in relative harmony, and the trigger-happy law enforcement known as White Knights ensure that everyone abides by the rules. It all sounds like a classic cyberpunk tale: everyone is injected with nanomachines, people barely scrape by and the government makes sure that it stays that way.

Until the 1990s, text was king. No surprise, given it took a full minute to download a picture and the average user was still using a monochrome display with a choice of either puke green or amber. Fast-forward to today, and find Youtube, Pornhub, Netflix, Twitch, not to mention constant unwanted ads on every random website…good or bad, video has become integral to the modern internet experience. At some point, virtual reality is going to consume the internet just like video already has.

Can a sex robot ever replace an actual human interaction?