Magnus wrote:
Autistics and schizophrenics can relate only to depersonalized people, to phantoms of his imagination, perhaps to things, and perhaps to animals but they can never experience the full range of human emotions because they act as a robot in a machine world.
No doubt having a robotic sex machine has its fascination but to accomplish this properly great sophistication would have to be part of the basic software. It would be no problem at all to extend its capabilities to what we today accept as part of the average PC and cell phone with all the current cell phone auxiliary capabilities. This artificial companion could therefore act as a source for net surfing, could play interesting interpersonal games, could speak with a cell phone voice, could aid in medical emergencies, could produce photos from graphics on the net or with a camera as part of its equipment and possibly produce a hot cup of coffee from a compartment in its stomach. Try getting all that with a wife.
On further consideration the dispensing of stimulating fluids by a robot companion would probably be OK by a male version from a body component in a cup but it might be more interesting from a female version by using the natural components, the breasts. One could dispense non-alcoholic fluids such as orange juice, cola, or buttermilk while the other could be devoted to scotch whiskey, red or white wine, beer or vodka. Public laws about breast feeding in public might be a difficulty.
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