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thanks to StockSnap for the image I’m restarting this blog as a conversation with the future. Robots and Me was always speculative – possible robots as well as possible me – but turbulence in my personal life and a lack of ground-breaking developments in AI or robotics made for distraction and neglect: a number of posts got stuck in draft; a greater number never made it that far. I thought about writing more, but none of those thoughts ever seemed urgent, important or even interesting. All my energies were focused on getting through the present, a present I thought might be challenging but was at least predictably stable. As it was, up until a couple of weeks ago. Now I feel like I’m spending my days spooling unsatisfactorily between the vaporisation of a world I never questioned, and an unprecedented, unmapped and uneasy future. I’m looking for ways to deal with – by which I mean work with and work through – social isolation, economic shutd...