Ridiculous today, and given current trends, reality tomorrow:
Academics from all over the world will descend on London to discuss how pleasure robots could impact owner’s lives next month…
In Canada, one company is now involved in a legal battle over privacy.
An unnamed woman is suing the makers of her Bluetooth-equipped vibrator after she claims its settings had a function which tipped off the company to when she used the device.
The lawsuit also claims the user’s personal e-mail address was transmitted to the company’s servers in Canada and breached her privacy rights…
She said: “[My client] would never have purchased a We-Vibe had she known that in order to use its full functionality, [Standard Innovation] would monitor, collect and transmit her usage information through We-Connect…
David Levy, an artificial intelligence expert added… “In the case of teledildonics, I see the products as increasing the sexual possibilities between humans, not decreasing the desire for human-human sexual contact.”
Teledildonics. You learn a new word every day.
Mark my words, one day somebody is going to be decked out in a Virtual Reality headset, haptic teledildonics, and all sorts of other stuff – and his hit team will time their entry according to what central control is seeing as they monitor his progress from a secondary location.
If they can slaughter Donald Trump over saying that he can kiss a girl he just met, imagine what the video feed from a couple of camera eyes on an AI sexbot would be worth, as somebody told the sexbot to do all sorts of debauched things. And you know they will come with WiFi connectivity, to connect the sexbot to a debauched AI hivemind, for your pleasure, of course.
It is a brave new world.
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