Artificial Intimacy : : Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers / / Rob Brooks.
What happens when the human brain, which evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological buttons, stimulating and sometimes exploiting the ways people make friends, gossip with neighbors, and grow intimate with lovers. Sex robots present the huma...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: In the beginning …
- 1. Meet the dollbots
- 2. It’s not about the robot
- 3. Groom your friends
- 4. The intimacy algorithm
- 5. How did sex become so complicated?
- 6. When artificial intimacy goes bad
- 7. Ploughs, pills and porn: How technology changes sex
- 8. Tomorrow’s moral panic will be just like yesterday’s
- 9. Make war not love
- 10. A Fembot army to disarm the InCel insurrection
- 11. There’s no such thing as free love
- 12. A future in four fictions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Notes
- Index