When the Aztecs and the Native Americans were defeated by Europeans it could be said that the “better” culture lay with the home teams. What the invaders brought with them though, apart from disease, was a vastly superior technology that the home teams didn’t understand and never got to grips with. This technology was applied very often ruthlessly with little thought for conscience, moral upstanding behaviour or culture.

So think of yourself as an Aztec of today, faced by a networked robot invader whom you do not understand, who doesn’t stick to your rules of engagement, who is far more powerful and who out-thinks you at every turn. So do you still want to take that drink from Asimo now?