It's not a matter of using imagination, it's how that imagination is used. They can obviously imagine the robot as the person on the other end of the phone call. I'd imagine it as a parasitic alien that is trying to hug the life force out of me.

I had a 'idiot' moment about 8-9 years ago and trashed all my old IBM compatible stuff. I can honestly say that I've regretted it ever since. I had several different Tandy 1000 boards, a bunch of 486, 386, and a couple of 286 boards. I even trashed on old Packard Bell board that made up my first computer I ever put together myself. However, nostalgia isn't really the topic of this post I guess so enough of that. Yeah, perhaps it was a hassle dealing with hardware conflicts and the like but DOS VM's are no picnic in the park either. I had a painful moment about a year ago trying to get Win 3.1 VM going. It worked eventually but wow! I never had that much trouble with original hardware. I love virtualization but sometimes you can't beat the original. Dang, now I got the itch...gotta go check out old PC stuff on eBay...

I tried the 3-D display at a store one time and watched a short snippet of a movie. It not only made my head hurt, but it gave me problems focusing for a half-hour or more.

Be thankful that you can't see it...it's not even that funny.

You're using examples of recently hired teachers. The problem isn't them, the problem is the teachers who have managed to remain obliviously incompetent until the point that it is almost impossible to get rid of them.