Sexbot? Not!

By Eric Pettifor Back at the end of 2007, my tech prediction was that 2008 would be the year of the sexbot. This seemed a sure thing based on two developments: highly realistic sex dolls like those from RealDoll, and a cute little dinobot called Pleo capable of responding to human interaction and its environment. [...]

Congratulations, it’s a fake

Parenting, from time immemorial, has been considered a noble purpose in life. No major religion is without some form of the exhortation to honour one’s parents. Indeed, in the Abrahamic religions, God is himself a father, while feminists, not content with the subordinate role allocated to women while Yahweh was king, long for a kinder, [...]

Babes of Toyland

I’ve been thinking about tech predictions for 2008, and have I got a good one for you. 2008 will be the year of the sexbot! That’s right, cooing, ooing, orgasming sexbots. Okay, maybe they won’t be able to actually orgasm, but women have been faking it since long before recorded history (heck, I wouldn’t be [...]