Tyra Banks reckons everyone will have 'robot assistants' - Beauty Bots if you will - in the future. So, they'll be like the 'ladies in waiting' of yore, or the PA of today, but just a bit more receptive if, let's say, Naomi Campbell decides to chuck a mobile phone at them.

For fear you're thinking "Naarrrgh, I'll never be able to afford one of those!!", they won't just be the norm for rich, busy people. They will be provided free of charge - there's only one condition... Your robot companion/helper must be permitted to suggest certain products to you.

America's Next Top Model's Queen Bee believes we will all have electronic helpers to choose our outfits and even give us a boost of confidence if we're having a ropey day.

In a piece about her beauty predictions for the future, she said: "Everyone will have at least one personal robot/assistant/companion. If a person allows that robot/assistant to suggest products paid for by sponsors, that person's robot will be free of charge. In fact, that person will actually be paid to use the robot by a pool of advertisers. The robot will have super artificial intelligence and will be able to sense if its owner is having a low-self-esteem day and will then strategically give boosts of confidence to its owner. 'Wow, Eloisa! Your eyes look especially lovely today!'"

In a more unnerving prediction, the 40-year-old model is convinced couples will be able to select their children's features as easily as they order food from a takeaway.

She added in the article for the Wall Street Journal (yep, THE Wall Street Journal): "The features of one's baby will be as selectable as menu items at a fast-food drive-through window. Blue and green eyes will become so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye colour."

While Tyra believes cosmetic surgery will be readily available to all in the future, she thinks some people still won't want to go under the knife but there will be other options available to them.

She said: "For those who choose not to go for plastic surgery, beauty ingestibles (active waters, etc.) will give instant, yet temporary results: contoured cheekbones, rosy cheeks, arched eyebrows. However, one must use them repeatedly to maintain results."

While we'd like to scoff at Ms. Banks' notions, stranger things have happened. In the meantime, you may want to start thinking about what criteria you'd like your Robot PA to have. Mine has to give killer foot rubs, laugh at all my jokes, and rig the weighing scales every other week.

If you wish to read Tyra's article in full, make your way here. She also discusses how "Women's empowerment will be an irrelevant concept", "hair extensions will no long exist" (instead we'll all be slathering 'curly hair' serum on our scalps), and how we'll all start looking like Rihanna or Beyonce.... How bad.

To put it another way, South Park were really on to something with the 'Goobacks' from the year 3045.