Gwyneth Jones writes in The Guardian that "science fiction is finally, rapidly, becoming fact - just as the first pulp writers and movie-makers were convinced it would, back in the 1920s" (I guess she's ignoring all of the other times when SF writers and pundits were obsessed about SF "finally, rapidly, becoming fact" -- starting with the atomic bomb in 1945 and famously including Sputnik in 1957 and the moon landing in 1969 -- to keep her point clearer, but we have all heard this song many times before. Science fiction is nearly always rapidly becoming fact, or at least some bits of it are.)

Her article is mostly about robots, as it happens.

(And is there some robot uprising in the UK that we're not hearing about on this side of the pond? There's also an article in the Belfast Telegraph today titled "Should the human race be worried by the rise of robots?")