My neighbour bought a robot vacuum cleaner. “It cleans the house all by itself,” he announced proudly. The next week he bought a robot lawn mower. The week after that he proudly displayed a smart refrigerator that ordered groceries without speaking to a soul. A month later I asked him,…


Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.