That video, created and posted to YouTube by lonzo625, perfectly captures not just the retrofuturistic theme of the song — “(It’s the ’80s, Where’s Our) Rocket Packs,” by the band Daniel Amos — but the way its own “futuristic” sound itself now seems like a time-capsule relic from the early 1980s. I’ve thought of that song a few times recently due to a series of recent stories in which robots seem to feature prominently. First there was all that business... Read more