Every time I see footage from those old 50's house of the future displays, it makes me think about how perceptions about our future our probably wrong. I get the feeling that we're not going to have a race of humanoid robot's minding our every need. We have robots working for us now, but as it turns our a giant hydraulic arm is much better at welding cars than something that looks similar to Rosie form the Jetsons.
Throughout history, we've advanced civilization through the use of tools, and tools, while they can be highly specialized, lack personality for the most part. If you think about it, most of the technologies thus far that were meant to emulate human interactions either come off as trivial novelties, or major annoyances (remember the ms word paper clip?). At any rate I really don't want have to convince my washing machine to do my laundry. The most popular new technological helpers like the roomba have their value formed by their utility, not their ability to seem human.
At any rate, with the economy going the way it is, I have a feeling that in 30 years it will seem more like 1978 than 2038.
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