Artificial intimacy : virtual friends, digital lovers, and algorithmic matchmakers /

"What happens when the human mind, evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological buttons, stimulating and sometimes exploiting the way people make friends, gossip with neighbors, and grow intimate with lovers. Sex robots present the humano...

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Hlavní autor: Brooks, Rob, 1970- (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York : Columbia University Press [2021]
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/broo20094
Obsah:
  • Intro
  • Table of 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