not so much a fraud as a paper tiger. i feel like what we’re witnessing is sort of a spaz session of folks who have lost power trying to assert that they still have it—meanwhile the rest of us are moving or have moved on. and yes about the robot excerpt you shared—hard to imagine a nimble artificial hand joint with sensitive electronics surviving wind, water, sun etc when clunkier mechanical machines can’t without constant maintenance. it’ll be like the opening scene of hurt locker—they’ll have to send in the human.