Thomson Financial has announced that it will use computers to write articles on corporate earnings releases.

The robo-writers can write and file a story within 0.3 seconds of when the earnings are made public.

Now anyone who has read earnings releases know that these are glorified Word macros, but it still gives a slight shudder to see us take yet another step closer to the ultimate robot rebellion and subjugation of the human race to our metallic overlords.