Domo is dead

Introduced less than two years ago, a Japanese invention called "Domo" was just about to become the next new consumer item marketed to the masses. Programmed to wait on shut-ins, invaids or those who were just-plain-rich-and-lazy, Domo could serve refreshments, tend to minor household chores, and put away the groceries. Just as the new 'robotic age' was becoming a reality, Earth was thrust back into - what might seem to some - the 'dark ages'.
"Domo" was just one more example of how lanquid the global society had become.
Instead of 'taking care of our own', we could hire robots to provide caregiving for aging parents, handicapped children or invalid friends and neighbors. Most of the world had succumbed to the 'convenience' of not being inconvenienced by personal devotion to others. Tossing a quarter to a homeless man on the street was considered a good deed. Writing a check to the American Red Cross was considered an act of charity. Actually spending time with an ailing, aging acquaintance was considered unthinkable.
But, when the translucent spheres reshaped the world in that split-second on February 9, 2009, all that changed. Only about half the world's population was still alive. And those three billion (or so) people knew instinctively that theirs was a world of caring, sharing and cooperation.