First though, the headline story at The Star, July 5:
The next generation of artificially intelligent cybernetic companions will bring about a Westworld-style future where some people will actively choose robotic partners over real humans.....MUCH MORE
Engineers, experts, scientists and philosophers gathered at the Free University of Brussels this week to discuss how we get from here to there, and how we should deal with those huge, far-reaching changes.
Daily Star Online recaps here the major talking points from the 4th International Conference on Love and Sex With Robots.
Italian philosopher Maurizio Balistreri asked whether humans could ever love robots, and if they could, would the robot ever be said to love them back?...
*Back in December 2016 FT Alphaville's David Keohane was on top of this development:
December 1, 2016To his credit, Mr. Keohane was early to the story.
Further Reading
***....—The rise of teledildonics, for those few who don’t know, that’s an industry built around “sex toys that connect to wireless networks.”
It took us until October 2017 to post:
Apparently Bluetooth Enabled Buttplugs Are Not As Secure As One Would Hope
Can be hacked and used as tracking devices.We updated the story in 2018 when the original teledildonics patent expired:
Tracking?
What on earth are people doing?
Here are some of the headlines, NSFW, or anywhere actually:...***... There go the dreams of a teledildonics empire, I guess it's back to a real perversion, treasury curve flatteners.
If interested here's the Amazon page, with the usual question:
What do customers buy after viewing this item?
"Cybersex toy industry heats up as infamous 'teledildonics' patent climaxes"
