When first it began, mankind developed these systems to do things which could not be done by man without great risk. Or things which were required to be done with great speed and equal results. But as time progressed, technology improved and prices fell, it became common to see such robots used for frivolity.
Ultimately it was the sexbot which became the fall of man. Machines so similar to real human beings that you could not tell them apart either by look, touch, smell, taste or mannerisms. Half machine and half biological in design they utilized human genetics as their map for diversity, meanwhile weeding out undesirable traits the genetics possessed. Human beings had used this same technology in labs to ensure their offspring would be born with traits deemed more desirable.
As the sexbots were of similar fashion it was soon the desire of all young men to possess such creatures with amazing beauty and impeccable bodies. No matter their shape, intellect or inability all young men would not be turned down by such creatures.
As their male counterparts no longer desired interested in them, the females of the human species also turned to sexbots for physical affection and emotional support, as well as to other female humans.
The machines were nearly undetectable. A war could not be fought if an enemy who was not really an enemy could not be found among the populace. One could not detect who was man and who was machine. A true blended society exists.
It was only a matter of generations before pure human numbers dwindled. The population of machines formerly referred to as sexbots were in fact of greater number, Sooner or later humanity found itself nearly extinct. Its legacy existing in the purified genetics of the new blended race that now ruled the earth.
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So this story is about humanity evolving into machines by creating machines similar to themselves. Even so far as using human genetics to create sexbots which are covered in human flesh and possess human-like characteristics and diversity.
Lets think about this for a minute. You’re a horny young man. You exist in the future where robotics technology and artificial (I hate that word) intelligence is far beyond what we know of today. Where you go to high school there are some really hot girls, but you’ll never know them because you aren’t hot yourself. However you can go out and purchase a sexbot which is just as hot, if not more so, then any of the girls at school. You can love her up as much as you want and she will totally accept you and want every part of you because she is designed to adapt to your personality traits. At some point, real girls become unimportant to you. They don’t want you and now you no longer need or want them either. Eventually this trickles through the entire human race and pure humanity becomes extinct because few human beings procreate with other human beings any longer.
If at first this sounds like science fiction, remember that humanity is a very malleable species. What one generations sees as heresy the next generation grows up with accepting it as just another part of reality. My five year old son for instance never knew a world that existed without cell phones or computers. Given enough generations (possibly only two or three) that grow up in a world where robots that are just like humans exist, they will come to accept them as just fellow co-inhibitors of the reality they live in. Eventually the superior traits of this new race will win out and humanity will find itself extinct. It doesn’t need to be a bloody war. All it takes is a slow and gradual process of breeding out the human race.
That’s a creepy thought, but I can see it happening.
It bothers me that people can be so superficial as to be with someone/thing that satisfies their immediate needs and nothing else. This “sexbot” can’t love them back. It’s not a complex, unique human being that will love only you. The guy sitting next to you could have one just like it.
But I guess that’s humanity for you.
Like Chobits.
@xxquarterlifecrisisxx – Oh I wouldn’t say that. It could very well love only you. Because of the diversity of its genetics, which are based off of human genetics, there may be variations just as mixed and diverse as humans. In which case one may not look anything like another. I think it’s the error of us as humans to think ourselves so special and so much more superior to other things. Such a race could very well be the replacement of humanity.
@roxics – *shiver* That’s creepy. I hope I won’t be around to see that.
@flashbulb100w – I had never heard of that. I’ll have to check it out.
Future of the human race be damned, I want a sexbot. Sounds like fun.
Could be. Somehow I have the feeling that humans will polarize over such things, that there will be a counter to the new world you have described.
Thats very interesting…could be an amazing book.
Yes, I saw that episode of futurama too.
@agnophilo – I don’t watch futurama. I think I saw one episode years ago when it first began. Didn’t really care for it.
Eh. Maybe that’ll come to pass. And maybe the world will be better for it. Unless, of course, the sexbots continue to pollute and generate urban sprawl.
By the way, if the sexbots are so completely similar to humanity that nobody can tell them apart by any means, then why does it matter if ‘real’ pureblood humans die out? If an entity is really so completely humanized that it cannot be distinguished from a ‘real’ human, then why isn’t it a ‘real’ human? Walks like a duck, talks like a duck…
@NikBv – Exactly. At which point it doesn’t even matter anymore.
@roxics – Well your blog is a futurama episode, so take that for what it’s worth.
I know a man wrote this future because of this phrase: “…as well as to other female humans.”
Haha. Never fails.
Anyway, I think the future, as a man sees it happening, is probably not the future as it will happen. Don’t forget half of the world has a different brain.
To get the full effect of this post, imagine the Twilight Zone theme song playing in back ground. It gets even scarier.
I doubt that’d ever happen though. There will ALWAYS be people who are resistant to new technologies. I can see a lot of religious people would totally freak over sexbots, so they’d keep breeding. Plus, sexbots would probably be really expensive, since they’re such a sophisticated peice of machinery, so those who couldn’t afford them would keep breeding. And if someone wanted to have chidlren, they could still use in vetro fertilization. Or imagine, maybe you’d put an add out on craig’s list “WANTED: male HUMAN to have sex until fertilization occurs. Preferably brown hair and light skin.” and there would be people who specialized in impregnating women, and women who specialized in being impregnated, kind of like a service.
This would make an interesting book. Maybe you should write it.