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Robot is a relatively new word to the English language. It was the creation of the playwright, novelist and journalist Karel Čapek, who introduced it in his 1920 hit play, R.U.R., or Rossum's Universal Robots. The first robotic welder what invented in the USA in 1954.
Vaccines. Washington state, a leading anti-vaccine state, currently has an outbreak of measles. This was caused partly by the anti-vaccine rage cause by the autism-caused-by-MMR vaccine scare of two decades ago.  Count in also religious objections. Of the 23 confirmed cases, 20 are of those having no previous vaccination. The World Health Organization, WHO, calls the anti-vaccine rage one of the world’s leading health disasters.* 
Fingers. Apple reports it is working on finger movement in mixed reality UX (User Experience).  The beat goes on as virtual reality increases in our world.  The time may come when the experiences of virtual reality exceed those in quantity and quality of the real thing. But fingers today?  What comes tomorrow?**  Toes?
Tempering is a metallurgical process of making finished products stronger and more robust. But there is no point in tempering the steel until you have formed it. This may be what the schools are doing, celebrating a finished product when it’s formation has hardly begun.  The first casualties have been to robotics, people uneducated and unable to do anything useful. Slowly, robots are claiming jobs of even the skilled and educated.

 Writers weave words as the artist brushes paint.  Both use tricks.  What you get is another kind of picture, often pretending to be truth.
* https://www.doh.wa.gov/YouandYourFamily/IllnessandDisease/Measles
**https://www.fastcompany.com/90295849/apples-finger-controllers-are-a-glimpse-at-mixed-realitys-future

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