Okay if he's happy with it and wants to let it go, fine. If you feel the same, fine.

And it's entirely possible, even likely, that science will fail me and I'll die like so many other old people have died before me. So it goes. But I'll be damned if I'll give up on this remote possibility happening before I kack. I want my death to be voluntary, not involuntary.

First, it's not immortality. It's agelessness. There are significant differences.

What is an example of cut and paste immortality?

This is an excellent point and I think I mostly agree with it but, I have a question.

I'd say that utopia is logically inconsistent, or at best, like infinity and thus never reachable. But having said that optimism is fine. Things do sometimes work out and sometimes unthinkable wonders are brought about by science and technology.

That's not what I'm saying. I'm just talking about semiotics.

Er, that's what it means to exist within a culture. Things have meanings that you can't control.

"Leader of the human resistance!"

I quite agree!

Later that night, Future Man drove under the influence and crashed his car into a robot factory, killing scores of half-constructed automata.

Given the nature of the automobile ads (and the cultural role of automobiles) in America, all car ads are about sex, whether they want to be or not. It's inescapable.

The automobile is the most fetishized, mythologized object you can own in America. No, I don't think this response to the ad is taking much of a liberty with its implied messages. Car advertising is mostly about sex and freedom (as was this one).

Cars aren't just giant metal dicks in American culture; they're also important indicators of social status!

How perfectly heteronormative "Never Neutral" sounds a bit like "never neutered", don't it ?

I like how the message of this ad seems to be: "If a friendly automaton ever sits in the driver's seat of your car, MURDER THEM."

Actually Asimov did have a story about something related to this called, "All the Troubles of the World." It's about how depressed the machines get in taking care of us psychotic idiots:

The 2011 Dodge Charger - "Built for humans!"

Okay the gauntlet has been thrown down.