Behold, the singularity looms. No, it's not the spooky event horizon of a black hole creeping across the Earth throwing us all into a spaghettified alien space-time! We stand on the cusp of a technological singularity. Specifically, artificial intelligence combined with automation, i.e., robots, a combination some futurists have long predicted will eclipse humanity's millennia-long affairs with war and power and profit in ways both unpredictable and exotic.