I find it very interesting that, for thousands of years, legends and stories of automatons who turned against their creators and killed them were the norm.  The golems of ancient lore, the robots and AIs of more recent stories, they were almost always the enemy.  I wonder if somebody wanted to make us afraid of the cybers.  Well, we were at first.  It took the example of Juliet and Major Tom to make pilots accept them.  For the population at large it took The War.