Ready For A Stepford Wife?
The only problem with this article is the guy says people under 35 may be able to enjoy this technology, as it will be out in 2050.
Look, pal. In 2050, I’ll be 88 and still quite “virile”…you know…like there’s no tomorrow! Thanks to Viagra, so let’s not be excluding over here….
In my opinion, this sounds good for pimps and bad for hoes.
From the article by Fritz Lanham in Chron.com:
If you’re younger than 35, you’ll probably live long enough to put David Levy’s prediction to the test. Levy says that by 2050 we’ll be creating robots so lifelike, so imbued with human-seeming intelligence and emotions, as to be nearly indistinguishable from real people. And we’ll have sex with these robots. Some of us will even marry them. And it will all be good.
Levy lays out his vision of a Brave New Carnal World in Love and Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships, which, despite its extended riffs on sex toys through the ages, is a snigger-free book. Levy’s no Al Goldstein. Rather he’s a 62-year-old British chess master turned artificial-intelligence expert persuaded that robot sex can brighten the lives of many, many unhappy people. “Great sex on tap for everyone, 24/7,” he writes on the final page of the book. What’s not to like?
So who will avail themselves of 21st-century sexbots?
Sad cases, for one, people so physically unattractive or anti-social or isolated or emotionally crippled that they have trouble finding human romance. People who love their computers more than their fellows. Hey, they’re out there already.
“They’re lonely; they’re miserable,” Levy said. “I think society will be a much better place when they have an alternative that satisfies them without doing any harm to other people.”
Add in those who have a satisfying sexual relationship but are simply curious and somewhere between 20 percent and 50 percent of the population will experience man-machine mating at least occasionally, Levy predicts.
He respects the fact that plenty of people, out of moral or religious conviction, will contemplate this with horror.
“But by and large,” he said, “it will be very good for society, very beneficial, and I think that will be the majority view within a relatively short space of time.”
Sexbots may put prostitutes out of business, he notes.
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yeah? We were supposed to have flying cars and a moon base by 2000. so much for predictions.
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:32 pmphysically unattractive
You’d think that a society that could create lifelike robots could fix that.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:11 pmPlease … The Japanese will have [this] up and running before anyone else (if they don’t already) … THEY are the ones who are so robot-obsessed.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/26/japanese_cyberminx/
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 pmDrill, thats right. The Japs will be banging robots way before we will haha.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 amI remember in the 80s and 90s looking at shows about the year 2000, living in a moon base type society, flying around in cars, time travel, blah blah blah. And look at the bold new world we live in and its 2008
Kurt, “Blade Runner” …
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:48 amwonder what would be cheaper, psychotherapy to help your game with “real” women, or a robot?
wonder if the robots will yell at you for leaving your socks on the sofa…
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 amCaligula,
I think with the people that would be targeted with this type of product would care if the robot was more expensive (as long as its not obscenely) then theropy.
A sexbot would be quicker and easier and there for they would be all over it.
This is a slippery slope in my opinion. Not just from the religious side either.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:48 am