We're doomed! Doomed, I tell you!

[elfs]

I, for one, am ready to reach out and shake the hands our new cybernetic overlords. Really. It's not going to take much to slim down those components an addition 15%, cover her in prosthetic-quality neoskin, and, well, it'll be all over after that. The human race is doomed.

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Comments

[purly]

In the early 90s there was a doll that all of my friends had. It could walk and respond to basic voice commands. It was terrifying. This strikes me as a much larger version of that.

[anonymous]

I understand your alarm - yet I suspect (and hope) there will always be a "critical mass" that prefer real sex with real people

oops!

[heofmanynames]

(that was me - sorry!)

Re: oops!

[elfs]

Good enough. My concern is simple: every advance in erotic technology peels away from the reproductive core of our population a small percentage of the reproductively responsible. As the technology improves, so will the decline of reproduction increase, to a tipping point where the population begins to fall. And if there's one thing the ZPG people don't like talking about: our standard of living is directly attributable to our population count. So, yeah, while there'll always be a core of people who want to have kids, without corresponding increases in lifespan an increase in non-reproductive erotic outlets leads to a decline in population.

Re: oops!

[dv_girl]

I disagree with the idea of 'reproductively responsible' in general. Some people are pretty lousy parents, I agree, and the last thing we need are more ignorant conservatives

[shockwave77598]

Before I can purchase his majesty's discarded sex-droids on Ebay? Really? You know, I bet with some bleach and a good bristle brush, it'd be good as new! :)

[ionotter]

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[elfs]

Ah, see, you anticipated the whole of the Journal Entries!

[ionotter]

DON'T THEY WATCH THEIR OWN MOVIES?!?!?