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A while ago New Scientist Magazine had a fascinating article by Annalee Newitz about how porn drives new technologies.
It makes me wonder where all the pretty sex-bots are. An online search for them reveals the sad state of affairs. Most human shaped plastic is disturbingly unlike its packaging and, for some mysterious reason, its consumers have not launched a large public lawsuit.
There’s the real dolls and the hentai dolls but we’re still a long way from an attractive man or woman humping machine.
Robot makers seem intent upon appealing to our better natures. They make child-care and elder-care bots, but almost totally ignore the crotch-care models. It is much like the early days of television, when people thought that it would be the greatest educational tool to ever hit the world. People thought that about the internet too. And the corporations try to sell us G.M. foods as a cure to third-world starvation.
It’s all bullshit.
People want to fuck pretty machines. Let them have what they want. What the robot-makers would lose in respectability, they would gain in profit. And the important technology would be driven forward. The prositutes might be upset but, let’s face it, they’re always upset about something.
awesome sex-bot pic by Jeff Soto
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sdit
February 28, 2006 at 6:18 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
After seeing that first blow up doll I needed time to go and hurl!
It looks like a fugly Colin Farrel wearing a Sienna Miller wig!
I realized what NSFW was, AFTER I click on all the links ;D
Oh well…u live you learn……..u click and u learn even more!
mona lisa
February 28, 2006 at 10:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
thanks for the warning, but i’ve got sex on the brain anyway. definitely an awesome sex-bot pic.
Grumpy Owl
March 1, 2006 at 5:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Sdit: As for the hurling, sex dolls will have that effect on you. I remember moving into an apartment to find that it was full of porn and there was a used sex doll. That was about 8 years ago. It’s pathtic that the technology hasn’t advanced.
M.L: Sex on the brain. I haven’t tried that yet.
mona lisa
March 2, 2006 at 5:12 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
it’s great, you just kind of rub it all around and make sure everything is covered in sex.
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January 20, 2008 at 2:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
[...] Porn has always been a driving force behind technology. It’s the reason VHS and the Internet succeeded. Combined with the army and space exploration, it’ll be what really gets robotics moving. It is a huge player and one that cannot be trivialized. [...]