Friend B is a successful graphic designer who works from home most of the time, spends 4 days working long hours then takes 3 days off, and also has no children.įinally, Couple C have 2 children, both over 10 but under 18, and swap who works to who stays at home with the kids regularly. Couple A are upper-middle-class, earn six-figure salaries each, spend a decent amount of time in their mortgaged apartment, and have no children. Now before you all lose your shit and start spouting the glories of timed washing, sparkling glasses, and water efficiency, let me tell you a little more about these friends of mine. Have you thought about the good old dishwasher? No really, go with me on this I know a goodly number of people personally who use a dishwasher every day. And in case any of you missed the point these devices are helping your body do what it needs to do as a human body, they are not replacing an entire being.Ī greater concern is the invention of machines that are making us lazier, while dehumanising us, one evil robot at a time. Let me also point out that all of the above are based on actual human body parts, that function as an extension of the body, where it cannot function for itself, or would better function with assistance.
Now before you get to it, let me not forget all the technology that is based on human body parts that have revolutionised medicine today the humble hearing aid, the pacemaker, hip/knee/shoulder joints, robotic arms, and more recently, remote surgery which lets surgeons do the operation from a computer with a precision never seen before. And I'm telling you now, unless it's trying to break your leg, a robot cannot make you cry like that. A chemical imbalance in the brain spawned some of the greatest poetry ever written, lines of prose that bring a tear to the eye. A robot cannot reproduce these things and you cannot convince me otherwise. I'm talking about emotion, interaction, eye-contact, blood flow, heart rate. Surely I'm not the only one who finds this stunningly creepy. The reason I'm dead-set again set against this type of technology is quite straight-forward we are taking what makes us unique and amazing as a race, and attempting to mass-produce it. And yours truly is not buying it, figuratively or otherwise. Seriously though, shortcuts to happiness are sinister and insidious, and come in shiny boxes for a one-off fee of $4,999.00. Thank gods for Netflix and online gaming. There's only so many cocktails you can drink, smiles you can fake, small talk that you can make, before the thought of slow water torture starts to look infinitely appealing. Dating is hard! Meeting someone new, putting yourself out there again and again it's tiring, not to mention bruising to the ego. Theoretically, I'm not unaware of the allure of such technology. The breathtaking vulgarity of such inventions is hard to fathom, and yet, here we are in a time when a machine can replace intimacy, apparently fulfilling all the needs you require in the bedroom department, without all the pesky emotional baggage that comes with it.
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