According to a study reported in this article in Motherboard, children are easily peer pressured by robots. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qqep/c

According to a study reported in this article in Motherboard, children are easily peer pressured by robots. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qqep/children-are-easily-peer-pressured-by-robots-study-finds https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qqep/children-a... When you add in the idea of their constant childhood pal being a device designed to sell them items from Amazon, it's quite worrying. If you wanted to take a positive spin on it, you could see it as the possible beginnings of a form of digital post-scarcity centrally controlled economy communism, I suppose.