"I'll fund THAT for a dollar!"

Art imitates life imitates robots?! A couple of strange stories in the cybernetic universe today. First, thanks to the project fundraising website Kickstarter, there will be a statue of Robocop located in Detroit. While originally pooh-poohed by Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, contributors took the dismissal as a call to arms, with one law abiding citizen donating $25,000 to match the collective group donations, topping the fundraising goal and guaranteeing that Robo's visage will be there to baffle our descendants.

That is, assuming we have any descendants, as the the idea of computers dominating mankind got a little more personal last night when Jeopardy savant Ken Jennings got his clock cleaned by IBM supercomputer Watson, culminating the end of a three day tournament. My wife and I used to watch Jeopardy regularly (like old people!), but since having a baby and coordinating tuck-in time, Alex Trebek has had to take a back seat. So imagine my surprise at hearing how the worm has turned!

Is the future of the Terminator movies one step closer to being here? Will Watson now decide he has to best all humans and look to squash us? Is Skynet even now creating latex covered "Trebekinators" to hunt down anyone with a fondness for trivia?

Perhaps a resigned Ken Jennings put it best, as he scrawled this phrase alongside his Final Jeopardy answer: "I for one welcome our new computer overlords." So the next time you're interacting with a phone prompt or a systems problem at work, maybe pause for a moment and ask yourself what the next ten years is going to look like.

Just be sure to phrase your answer in the form of a question.