We live in times of awerror. Ever since my return to active LinkedIn posting and reading, I've experienced a deluge of robot videos doing household chores, human caretaking, package sorting, sports, and a disturbing amount of fighting (really? that's what we're teaching them?). Watching these endless videos as I scroll through my feed evokes dual emotions for me: I marvel at the wonders we are making, while simultaneously feeling deep dread at what the implications of all of these wonders will have on our lives. I've been experiencing these conflicting emotions ever since I got my first glimpse of the coming future in #SXSW 2017. The explosion of AI in our world in the last three years and the very recent rain of robots everywhere have pushed this feeling up to 11. The terms "technological sublime" (popularized by David Nye) or "digital sublime" are sometimes used to describe this type of mixed emotion, but I feel it doesn't sufficiently express ...