28 April 2017

The 'Pygmallion Syndrome' Coming to a Bedroom Near You....

In my first sci-fi outing, "The PAnd0RA Ultimatum", the story focused on a prototype android 'companion' sent to an unwitting (and unwilling) winner of a contest to be a 'beta tester' for one year. Easily, 'more human than human' the android 'PAnd0RA 001' was the pinnacle of human technological advancement 65,000 years from now and the answer to those long, lonely interstellar journeys.

Yet, well short of that far-flung future we see a serious push towards not only creating viable artificial intelligence (AI), but also a push to reach the technological 'holy grail' of incorporating intimacy into the mechanical. In my story, the challenge was for the android to 'complete her function as companion' and getting her human counterpart to see her as a viable being. 

What is similar today as in the story, is the human need to fill the void created for those who are either unable or unwilling to obtain or maintain human contact, but still require the fulfillment of intimacy that comes with companionship. At the moment, the 'real money' is in the sexual side of this and that's where 'sex robots' come into play.
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