OFF/HW: Cybernetic Love with your Orgasmatron

[Christian Mumford]

More chilling Hawkwind related predictions (along with Uncle Sam's on Mars,
clones (Spirit Of The Age) etc. etc.). Report courtesy of Harper's magazine:
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ORGASMATRON (prediction)
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>From "Impacts of Robotic Sex," by Joel Snell, in the July/AUgust issue of of
The Futurist: A magazine of forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future.
Snell teaches social sciences at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.


        "Robots that provide sexual companionship are likely to become
common in the future. Reportedly, prototype models have already been
developed in Japan. THe future "secbots" will have humanlike features and
will be soft and pliant. Sexbots will contaim vibrators  to provide tactile
stimulation and sound systems  to provide love talk.They Could certainly
alter human relations in any or all of the following ways:

        * Marriages may be destroyed by sexbots when husbands choose sex
with the sexbots rather than with  their wives. Jealous wives may destroy
sexbot rivals and sue the manufacturer.
        * Heterosexual people may use same-sex sexbots to experiment  with
homosexual relations. Or gay people  might use other-sex sexbots to
experiment  with heterosexuality.
        * Robotic sex may become addictive. Sexbots would always be
available amd never say no. People  may become  obsessed by their ever
faithful, ever pleasing sexbot lovers and rearranging their lives to
accommodate  their addictions. Eventually, support groups  will likely form.
        * Technovirgins will emerge. AN entire generation of humans may grow
up never having had sex with other humans.
        *Robotic sex may become "better" than human sex. Like many other
technologies that have replaced human endeavors, robots may surpasss human
technique; becasue they would be programmable, sexbots would meet each
individual's needs.
        Will electonic and robotic sex reduce teen pregnacy ,sexually
transmitted diseases, abortions, pedophilia, and prostitution? the jury is
still out on these implications. However, boundaries , barriers , and
beliefs will be challenged."


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"when we meet I'll program you"........

Christian


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