Posted on 10/13/2007 5:31:19 PM PDT by Renfield
Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows.
"My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience. Levy recently completed his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships, covering many of the privileges and practices that generally come with marriage as well as outside of it.
At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, "but once you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot, and it was great!' appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon," Levy said......
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
a little too much Isaac Asimov....(robot novels)
Is a blow up doll with a DU sponsored voice recorder that says “Give it to me Goreacle, give it to me Goreacle” considered a robot?
Of course it could happen. WOMAN MARRIES DOLPHIN.
As far as "consumating"... uh... that sort of thing happens all across the internet already.
Lucky.
The Stranger mused for a few seconds; then, speaking in a slightly sing-song voice, as though he repeated an old lesson, he asked, in two Latin hexameters, the following question:"Who is called Sulva? What road does she walk? Why is the womb barren on one side? Where are the cold marriages?"
Ransom replied, "Sulva is she whom mortals call the Moon. She walks in the lowest sphere. The rim of the world that was wasted goes through her. Half of her orb is turned toward us and shares our curse. Her other half looks to Deep Heaven; happy would be he who could cross that frontier and see the fields on her further side. On this side, the womb is barren and the marriages are cold. There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty (delicati) in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place."
[from C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength]<
Pray.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Eternity Road
This is uncomfortably close to spending too much time online.
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