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Forecast: Sex and Marriage with Robots by 2050

11 points by cstejerean 19y ago

myoung8 19y ago
"Think of the children! What about the children?!"
DanielBMarkham 19y ago
Hey -- a couple drinks at a bar, you get lost and instead of stuffing quarters into the jukebox you make a mistake and hook up with Robot Chick. Pretty soon you get the call that you're a proud father of a bunch of little toaster-ovens. This is going to make Jerry Springer a LOT more interesting.
ivankirigin 19y ago
This is silly because today's notion of a robot will be nothing like those in 43 years. It will be hard to find non-enhanced people: the line between robot and human will be blurred. This is why I disagree with most prognostications -- they usually suffer from the categorical error of asking about the future of "us and them". There is only us. Also, this isn't saying we'll wed Roombas. Rather, we'll wed with seemingly sentient beings that display as complex emotions as today's humans. They'll just happen to be artificial. When you put things in context like that, it shouldn't seem strange. But you don't really need to wait for the future for some weird robot happenings: NSFW: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/09/video-fuckzilla-at-a.html http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/09/video-fuckzilla-at-...
- CaptSpify 19y ago
  They've been saying that for years though. In a sense, we are cyborg-human mixes: Heart-monitors, hearing-aides, etc. I think the integration will come, but I think we're still far off. I'm just waiting for my flying car damnit!
  - ivankirigin 19y ago
    It will really make a difference when we have brain interfaces or enhancements. Controlling a remote device with a thought, for example, or sending/receiving a short message would both be "the future".
henning 19y ago
1960s prediction: by the 1990s robots will do chores for us and make us waffles for breakfast like on the Jetsons.
- cstejerean 19y ago
  so it looks like we dropped the ball a bit on innovation. Actually I don't think robots that do some chores would be particularly hard to build, but they would probably be so expensive it might be cheaper to a) do it yourself, or b) hire a maid

11 points by cstejerean 19y ago

"Think of the children! What about the children?!"

Hey -- a couple drinks at a bar, you get lost and instead of stuffing quarters into the jukebox you make a mistake and hook up with Robot Chick. Pretty soon you get the call that you're a proud father of a bunch of little toaster-ovens. This is going to make Jerry Springer a LOT more interesting.

ivankirigin 19y ago

This is silly because today's notion of a robot will be nothing like those in 43 years. It will be hard to find non-enhanced people: the line between robot and human will be blurred. This is why I disagree with most prognostications -- they usually suffer from the categorical error of asking about the future of "us and them". There is only us. Also, this isn't saying we'll wed Roombas. Rather, we'll wed with seemingly sentient beings that display as complex emotions as today's humans. They'll just happen to be artificial. When you put things in context like that, it shouldn't seem strange. But you don't really need to wait for the future for some weird robot happenings: NSFW: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/09/video-fuckzilla-at-a.html http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/09/video-fuckzilla-at-...

CaptSpify 19y ago
They've been saying that for years though. In a sense, we are cyborg-human mixes: Heart-monitors, hearing-aides, etc. I think the integration will come, but I think we're still far off. I'm just waiting for my flying car damnit!
- ivankirigin 19y ago
  It will really make a difference when we have brain interfaces or enhancements. Controlling a remote device with a thought, for example, or sending/receiving a short message would both be "the future".

henning 19y ago

1960s prediction: by the 1990s robots will do chores for us and make us waffles for breakfast like on the Jetsons.

cstejerean 19y ago
so it looks like we dropped the ball a bit on innovation. Actually I don't think robots that do some chores would be particularly hard to build, but they would probably be so expensive it might be cheaper to a) do it yourself, or b) hire a maid