Robot Intimacy Can Never Be Enough For Humans

Just in case you were worried, sex is going to keep happening – between (and among) humans, even when we have sex robots – and humans will still need other humans to take care of them as well, not just care robotos. “This is an intimacy that does not make room for human empathy or what human beings in their bodies experience as the fear of death, loneliness, illness, pain. We diminish as the seeming empathy of the machine increases. It is technology forcing us to forget what we know about life.”