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Istik
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Humans to have robot lovers by 2050
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by Istik » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:00 pm
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life ... 645114.ece
We are at the beginning, Levy believes, of a process that will lead us in about 2050 to the widespread availability of robot lovers and carers: machines that will look, act and talk like humans. Levy’s new book – Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships – is the road map to that eerie future. It is an unsensational work, a rounded cultural, historical and technological survey of why robosex is the way of the future. In its academic form – Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners – it earned him a PhD in Holland
Well sounds like a lot less trouble
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by Parrot » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:45 pm
I hope I can turn it off when it starts bitching about taking out the garbage.
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by Istik » Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:22 pm
Parrot wrote:I hope I can turn it off when it starts bitching about taking out the garbage.
What! It will be taking out the garbage..
