Digital Transcendence

http://www.transcendencemovie.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_(2014_film)

People merging into computer programs & machines is both fascinating & horrific.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/12/20/transcendence-trailer, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209764

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2527133/Johnny-Depp-undergoes-radical-cyber-transformation-tries-immortal-paranoid-teaser-Transcendence.html

In most cases it's not necessary to make robots appear human.
However, this TV series depicts why a disc, cylinder, sphere, & cube robots aren't always the best shape to interact with people.
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2013/11/almost-human-tv-series.html

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2013/12/humans-robotics-and-bionics.html

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2013/11/quantum-physics-proves-there-is-after.html

Humans, Robotics and Bionics

Key theme, a more or less intact human head & brain is transferred onto a robotic body.
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/1980-1989/robocop
Thus, this could be considered as bionics, as well as robotics.

Key theme, certain robots are constructed to replicate humans, but with super strength.
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/1980-1989/blade-runner
Some of them don't realize that they are A.I. machines.

In this exciting TV series the robots know that they aren't human.
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2013/11/almost-human-tv-series.html
However, perhaps at some point in the series, there might be one that has been programmed to not really know what it is.

http://www.livescience.com/42171-darpa-robotics-challenge-winner.html ,
http://www.livescience.com/topics/military-spy-tech ,
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/category/news-as-cyberpunk/rise-of-the-robots

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2013/12/digital-transcendence.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=RoboCop

Grace Hopper and Computers, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#Career,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
Grace Hopper was one of those people that never liked to retire, so she kept on working right through her life.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/09/grace-hopper-google-doodle-cobol-computer-language

In the 1940s & 1950s several people just considered computers to be part electronic adding_machine & part typewriter. However, once digital memory started to expand, computers really took off.

By the late 1950s, TV was starting to become commonplace, along with the telephone some decades earlier. However, most people still had no concept of being able to sit at a desk with something like a TV screen, landline telephone & typewriter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Corporation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33#Interface 1963
As telecommunications gradually evolved through the 1960s to the 1990s many new possibilities opened up. Digital_telephones_and_voice_over_IP

Many consider late 1969 as the birth of the formation of the_Internet.

The word_processor & then the desktop_computer became more popular as the technology improved.
By the early 1990s things were off & running.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Opening_the_network_to_commerce
By the mid 1990s Internet#Search_engines really started to take off. Especially after 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Mobile_phones_and_the_Internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_replacement_computer,
http://www.digitaltrends.com/best-desktop-replacement-laptops,
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Top-10-Desktop-Replacement-Laptops.17035.0.html,
http://www.pcworld.com/product/collection/1659/top-10-power-laptops.html,
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-desktop-replacements
So in this day & age a person can have a pocket computer, otherwise known as a smart phone. A tablet, laptop & desktop for whatever they need to do, it all becomes part of the collection of choices.
http://www.computershopper.com/laptops/desktop-replacement-laptops/desktop-replacement-laptops-more-than-7-pounds

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http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/12/06/while-the-nsa-hacks-your-fibre-hackers-are-secretly-redirecting-web-traffic-around-the-world