New technology is always emerging, and it's all we can do to keep up with it. I recently got an iPod touch 5th gen, and now Apple is going to release something within 3 months that will outdate my device. Life goes on, tech improves. Much of science fiction written in the past 30 years is actually a pretty fair prediction of what we can do with tech nowadays. This is a link to an article about a new robot that is being built, that will supposedly be sentient as it will learn everything just like a human baby: http://www.gizmag.com/roboy/25571/ . New tech is now, and we can either embrace it or defy it.