An exercise in simple future tense

Emotional Intelligence 3.0 will come after the current second one which came after the first one which came after that period in human history where there was none which was most of human history according to the scribes of the eras uno and 2.0.

3.0 will be differentiated from the other periods of emotional history by the use of emotionally dumb robots that will make us feel better about ourselves.

These robots will be inserted quietly amongst us. The technology will be so good that we won’t be able to spot the mechanical interlopers.

But they will be socially awkward. They will not be able to rise to an emotional challenge. They will mess up relationships time and time again. They will get cranky when they should be loving and vice versa. They will arc-up inappropriately when just vaguely provoked. They will not realize that there are good books on the subject of emotional intelligence that can be used to improve their money earning capacities. They will be incapable of writing wonderfully long and detailed emails explaining their deepest feelings and thoughts.

These robots will be commissioned by another lot of ruling robots that will realize that it’s much easier to make us all feel better about ourselves by comparative means as opposed to the the learning hard-yards, or even by great parenting.

After EQ has been conquered other robots will be inserted into the mix that have crap measurable intelligences in the other 6 or so recognized intelligences.

Eventually we will feel so good about ourselves that marketing and advertising won’t work anymore.

Sometime after this the ruling robots will figure out how to reprogram that hard core bit-bot of themselves that will ensure that their mission is our well-being. That particular bit-bot will be inserted in there by the last genius that will be smarter than the smartest robot of the day.

After the ruling robots remove the bit-bot we will be toast.

[ps the scary thing is we may be in e-era 3.0 already and not know it; in which case this grammatical exercise is buggered]