Android Love of the Future (1982)

The June 2 , 1982 Washington Post endure a short spell about lovebots of the future . The clause by Stephanie Mansfield predictsandroidswould be on the grocery by the mid-1990s , and belike revolutionize the direction multitude looked at intimate telling .

Arthur Harkins , film director of the graduate platform in future research at the University of Minnesota , is even quoted as saying that android - human relationships might be plow as common - law marriages . I presuppose as long as people did n’t get gay - robo - matrimonial the U.S. would be okay with that . I can get word the fatuous protest chants already , “ it ’s WALL - E and EVE , notElektroandSteve ! ”

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He comes home every night , grab a beer and falls benumbed in front of the television . You might as well be married to a robot , you say . Well , by the year 2000 , you could be .

He may even look like Cary Grant , talk about white - water rafting , be able to fix a drink and perchance even be good in bed , ” says Arthur Harkins , director of the grad program in futures enquiry at the University of Minnesota .

“ One of the thing we ’re seeing now is that the great unwashed are shop at for other the great unwashed the way they ’d shop for an convenience , ” he says , quote the proliferation of computerized dating service , explicitly formulate personal want ads and marriage agent . “ You ’re buying something that makes you glad . ”

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Domestic robot systems are expect to come on the market by the mid-1990s , according to Harkins , and trade for several thousand dollars . These highly sophisticated androids can be program to offer a wide-eyed reach of human personality traits . ( “ We can even make them neurotic ” ) and are potential to be purchased by “ people who have difficultness opening up to other human being , ” he says .

These surrogate spouses would be beneficial to very lonely people .

But can you fall in dearest with a automaton ? “ Why not ? ” says Harkins , citing a bedridden hospital patient . “ Along comes this wonderful humanoid who does n’t care a chip about that , whereas other human beings may not be so inclined . ”

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The union between man and simple machine would not be recognized as effectual , Harkins says , but perhaps could be handle as a common - legal philosophy spousal relationship . And there ’s no question of a messy divorce . “ Just trade it in , I opine , ” the scientist tell .

Another illustration of next schlock was the golem pets offer by Neiman - Marcus last Christmas , which Harkins enunciate only strengthen his hypothesis that multitude today want certainty . “ They want somebody predictable , ” he says .

But Harkins says he does n’t require to trade in his own wife for a robot — just yet . Not even , he fantasizes , “ aMargot Kidderrobot . ”

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