Author and Chess wiz David Levy sees the future of robo-lovin'.

"If you're younger than 35, you'll probably live long enough to put David Levy's prediction to the test. Levy says that by 2050 we'll be creating robots so lifelike, so imbued with human-seeming intelligence and emotions, as to be nearly indistinguishable from real people. And we'll have sex with these robots. Some of us will even marry them. And it will all be good.

Levy lays out his vision of a Brave New Carnal World in Love and Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships, which, despite its extended riffs on sex toys through the ages, is a snigger-free book. Levy's no Al Goldstein. Rather he's a 62-year-old British chess master turned artificial-intelligence expert persuaded that robot sex can brighten the lives of many, many unhappy people. "Great sex on tap for everyone, 24/7,'' he writes on the final page of the book. What's not to like?"

I'm not sure if I should be thrilled or afraid. The mere thought of making out with a hot robot appears in far too many of my geeky dreams, yet so much could go wrong with this sort of idea. New computer type STD's? Perhaps a human hooker rebellion? People so fed up with how human relationships work sticking to robot only love thus thinning out the human populous and ending our race? Of course there's always the potential for a robot/human civil war and we'll get a twisted version of wars from The Terminator.  

I wonder how difficult it would be to get a loan from the bank on one of these things? Will they offer special interest rates? Can you lease with an option to buy? Rent them for parties? One can only imagine a slew of new taunts like "You couldn't get laid by one dollar hooker-bot" or "Timmy's parents are so poor he had to take a Della Reese-Bot to the prom".

Want to learn more about the future of Robot Love? Check out the rest of David Levy's article HERE.

 

Readers have left 3 comments.

No.1  Nice

so its basically a large vibrator?

Guest User () • 2008-01-02 17:12:27

No.2  The end of life as we know it...

"No thanks Id rather sit here and make out with my monroe-bot"

Derek () • 2008-01-03 03:01:36

No.3  yum

i would tap that

robotluver () • 2008-05-24 16:47:16

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