Yet when you take a close look at many of the claims being made about sex and technology, it’s clear that much of the panic is baseless. Take, for instance, our obsession with how hookup apps are ruining our sex lives. While numerous media reports have claimed that Tinder and Grindr are causing rampant promiscuity, citing spikes in sexually transmitted diseases in various states, on the national scale, there’s zero evidence to suggest that Tinder and Grindr are directly responsible for the spread of STDs, nor is there any evidence to suggest that young people are having unprotected sex at such an alarming rate that STDs are on the rise.

On the contrary, the nation’s most common STD, chlamydia, is actually on the decline for the first time in three decades. Teen pregnancy and HIV rates are also falling, and where STDs are on the rise, a 2013 British study attributed it to an increase in people getting tested, not to an increase in people having unprotected sex.

Keeping our history of technophobia in mind, the sex-robot hysteria doesn’t make a whole lot of sense — especially when you consider that sexbots, in their ultra-sophisticated “Ex Machina” form, don’t actually exist yet. Despite pop culture’s sci-fi-infused visions of big-breasted, lingerie-clad fembots, most of our current options for sex robots aren’t actually that sexy to begin with. Most of them look less like Alicia Vikander and more like Rosie from “The Jetsons.”