Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/MsuFGPO Desire in the Age of Robots and AI An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact By: Rebecca Gibson Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Print ISBN: 9783030240165, 3030240169 eText ISBN: 9783030240172, 3030240177 Copyright year: 2020 Format: EPUB Available from $ 59.99 USD SKU 9783030240172 This book examines how science fiction’s portrayal of humanity’s desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. It begins by taking the reader on a journey that outlines basic human desires—in short, we are storytellers, and we need the objects of our desire to be able to mirror that aspect of our beings. This not only explains the reasons we seek out differences in our mates, but also why we crave sex and romance with robots. In creating a new species of potential companions, science fiction highlights what we already want and how our desires dictate—and are in return recreated— by what is written. But sex with robots is more than a sci-fi pop-culture phenomenon; it’s a driving force in the latest technological advances in cybernetic science. As such, this book looks at both what we imagine and what we can create in terms of the newest iterations of robotic companionship.
