Ooooh, no, hadn't heard about those, thanks!

I'd highly recommend the Eisenhorn books (starting with 'Xenos') by Dan Abnett (same author as Horus Rising).

They're a great jumping off point into the whole Warhammer universe, they don't assume you have any background knowledge.

(Also, while looking it up to make sure I was spelling 'Eisenhorn' right, I just discovered there's a fourth book that I haven't read yet. Immediate buy for me!)

> You can't live naturally in the context I've described above due to sheer over-stimulus

Why? You're making this assumption without justifying it.

It's impossible to consume every bit of media, it's impossible to know every person, and it's impossible to read every book. You ignore heaps of stuff routinely, as part of your day-to-day existence. People are pretty good at figuring out what's relevant to their immediate lives, and ignoring or skimming most everything else.

Over-stimulation isn't an existential problem today; why would it be tomorrow?

I think humanoid robots are one of those sci-fi staples that came about primarily because they're:

1. Cool/evocative to look at (our monkey brains like things that look like us)
2. Easy to film (slap some tin-foil on an actor and call it a day)

But, in the real world, they're just not very practical. There's not all that many use-cases where a more 'traditional' robot would not be able to do the same thing for a tiny fraction of the cost. Maybe child/elder care? But, why would I ever buy a humanoid robot to sweep my house, when I could get a Roomba for 1/100th the price? They're certainly not going to make economic sense in many (if any) industrial/manufacturing capacities, like this report seems to think.

I'm sure they'll have a niche market, based primarily on that cool factor. I don't think they're going to be a hundred-billion dollar industry.