With scientists working tirelessly to refine such technologies, the public must become more knowledgeable about their socioeconomic implications. Neither of the existing paradigms for assessing individual potential intelligence quotient and emotional quotient can assess a person s ability to compete against the growing robo collar workforce.

Consider, for example, the Corporate Governance Quotient system, developed by the US firm RiskMetrics, the world s dominant shareholder advisory firm. RiskMetrics system, which is used by institutional investors around the world, attaches considerable weight to the arrangements governing contests for control.

Having socialized banks losses after we had seen the privatization of their gains, our rage quotient has shot up once more at the news that the banks we saved are again filling the troughs into which all those snouts are enthusiastically dipped. The sheer unseemliness of what is happening raises blood pressure as well as eyebrows.