The Robots Are Coming

During my storied time as an unpaid intern at a literary-political magazine in New York, my fellow interns and I spent some of our valuable time dreaming up names for a future rock band we would never form. (Random Ed. Note: My favorite line in The Life Aquatic: "Don't shoot him! He's an unpaid intern.") We settled on the name Global Robot Population. (For completists, our first three albums were going to be called, respectively, Who's Your Robo-Daddy?, Skillz With a Zed, and Third Prong.)

Now, South Korea is making noises about having robots in 100% of homes (presumably just the homes in South Korea) by 2020. Seems ambitious. And based on this picture, kind of creepy, too.