When would you consider robots alive?
Twenty or so years down the road, we create robots and computer programs that have true learning capabilities. Let's say they were modeled after the human mechanisms for learning to study the process of learning, the effects of different methods of learning, and learning disabilities. And like society is, a third party comes in and expands upon its natural capacity to learn emotion, enabling it to express emotion. This third party hopes to sell the robot/program for commercial purposes or something.
At what point would you consider technology a form of life? Please disregard the rules that life must be composed of cells, and life must have the ability to reproduce. Bringing up those definitions while trying to make an argument would make the discussion a narrow one.