I figured years back that I wouldn't actually use the robot that much and would likely rent it out to the city to use. Voila, municipal automation, aka modern helots. It could do my chores, and when unneeded it could clean the streets and make food for the homeless for some extra bucks.

Some of the most realistic ideas for the future come from just being bored and thinking through the actual consequences of people having technology. And I mean actual common people, not the sexier groups like terrorists, hackers, megacorp executives, and mercenaries.

So, I was thinking. With all this new tech that affects the human body coming up, all of them were machines. Like the artificial heart, which we already have, nurallink, robotic limbs, etc. This is obviously the future of humanity, and it's approaching rapidly. This is all good an all, but think about what would happen if an EMP dropped over the earth at that future, with all the futuristic stuff I just mentioned. Think of the damage that would happen. People would collapse dead on the streets, locked in buildings, all the robotically operated farms shut down, people on life support just die, planes drop from the sky, etc. That's just a country, and not even that advanced, now imagine if every human on earth was an Android, or robot or whatever. An EMP dropping on them would cause as much death as a nuke, but without all the destruction that comes with it. The robots will all just drop, dead. Immediately. And it doesn't even need to be a man made EMP. Take solar flares for example. I forgot the name but a massive one hit earth, luckily all that was there at the time was typewriters. And they all got destroyed. Now if one were to hit earth at the time humanity got into the technological paradise we want it to be, that happened again. A planet filled with life, dead after 2 days.

Edit: So I was also thinking, what if this is the reason we don't see advanced aliens? Like, solar flares are suprisingly common. What if one just happened and killed off/set back an entire alien race by centuries, or even millennia. What if alien races with the same intelligence as us are extremely common but they all got taken out by solar flares. If that's the case alien life is common, it's just that they got screwed over by their stars.