I've been thinking about robots a good bit recently, especially as I look out over my room and I see what a disgusting mess it has become. It's been an embarassingly long time since I have given this room a good clean. I'm not going to lie and say I'm not ashamed of it, because i am , but that doesn't mean I'm going to do anything about it, because I'm not. Hence i just want to sit here and dream of the robots that, some day in the future, will perhaps be able to clean it.
When I woke up and looked around the mess, i was sort of imagining a situation where I would have a bot parked near my door, and the moment I woke up, i could just shout something to the bot and he or she would get started with the day, same as me. For example, I'd be lying on my bed and I'd say to the bot "can you grab my guitar and move it over to its stand? I dont want it lying on the couch, sugar. Also, can you take those coffee cups all my friends left on the table and bring them to the kitchen? And when you go, tell that Gina to bring me my work laptop." Gina of course will be another robot, but she doesn't stay in the bedroom with me. She stays in the living room and works on keeping that part of the house tidy. Maybe she is a bit more advanced than the bedroom bot. Maybe less advanced?
Anothre thing i was pondering in regards to the robots like this was how fast do you think they'll go out of date and become obsolete? In our own time, a computer can be expected to last about 5 -6 years and a cell phone seems to only last about 2 before becoming a piece of junk. How long will cleaning robots last? Will they be like vacuum cleaners, which seem to last for quite awhile? How expensive will they be, once they're ubiquitous, in relation to the average persons income? I can envision a scenario where the average person will have 2-3 robots in their house at all times. Each robot will have a different duty, as i was describing above. One will be a sex robot, the next a robot that'll cook for you, and the last one this cleaning robot. The owner will be able to "skin" the bots any way he or she wants. For example, if you want all your bots to look like hot babes, you can have that. If instead you want them to look like old grizzled pirates or cowboys,you can have that too. Robot skins will probably be like the iPhone cases now. New ones will come out all the time. Amateur artists will try to make them. They'll sell em on the side of the road in the cities and near malls.
A lot of people in the year I'm now in probably don't realize just how fast robots really are on the rise. Like, even now as i write about it, it sort of feels like I'm writing about some absurd sci-fi plot that isn't going to be around for decades,but this is not true. Just the other night I watched a video on YouTube that a company in California put out and they made a fully functional sex robot that is due to be released at some point this year. I believe the company is named RealBotix and they are hard at work. My question is...if we now have one of our first sex bots this year, what year will it be when we have one in every home? The sex bot is being listed, for now, at a price of $9-10,000. This is not surprising: Every time a new piece of tech is released, it is only for the rich. It was the same with the TV in the 1940s, and the same with the computer in the late 1980s. Us poor folk didn't have them. Now we all got em. Following this same pattern, it would seem that we can hope for an affordable sex/cleaning robot by the year ... 2030. Maybe a bit later, 2032-35. Certainly before the 2040s. I will be a lot older but maybe it won't be so bad if I got a bot. You know I don't have any children so i am really depending on these bots to come around and take care of me when i'm a senior citizen. I imagine a cute bot in a short pink skirt and i scream at her to get me Coronas from the fridge. I am free to practice any and all misogynistic urges on her. She doesn't care. She's not REAL!
With all of these visions in my head tho, the weird thing is that I'm almost starting to feel like I miss the robots, even though I've never had one! Isn't that bizarre? I spend so much time fantasizing about a world in which helpful robots are here to clean my room, have sex with me, and cook for me, that I now look around my residence and get aggravated they ain't there. To understand what i mean, try to imagine leaving your 21st century house now, and going back to one in the year 1895. IMagine how many appliances you would be sorely missing! The toaster oven, the TV, the fridge, the microwave, the furnace, the water heater, the SINK itself....plus the toilet too! Go back to just 1950 instead and you'd be missing your iPhone, your computer, your 900 channels, etc. So basically I'm looking around the house now and I'm just dead bored that the robots aren't already here. I see so much room for improvement and I am tired of waiting. I want my mother fucking wall screen! I want my holograms! I want my sexy robot Gina in the bathroom with me wiping my back down when i shower! IMagine how smooth Gina's hands will feel? They will never age. She will always be this hot 20 year old broad. Her face will change the moment I want it to. "GIna go in the closet and put on the Angelina Jolie mask. Gina go and put on the Marilyn Monroe mask. With the costume too!" Honestly, all those people who talk about how the robots will eventually kill me, my opinion is...who really cares? If Gina gives me 30-40 years of bliss like the kind I'm imagining, I'll gladly let her off me when I'm old and senile! It's nothing to be afraid of. It's exaclty like a spouse!
In regards to violent robots, however, one thing I do often wonder is how bots might be of use in, for example, domestic violence situations. For instance, let's imagine a rich young woman who lives in an apartment and she brings back a working class guy to sleep with her and drink. At some certain point, the big old muscle guy starts getting a little demanding with her. He wants to do sex in a way she ain't looking to do it. In our own time, he strangles her to death and beats her head agaisnt the wall and kills her in a rage. In robot time, the rich girl calls on her bot the moment the guy starts getting a bit too violent. She keeps the bot hiding in the closet. It's a big ass muscled bot named Theo and it got a metal fist for a hand. Theo comes charging out of the closet and breaks the guys jaw, then he drags him out of the apartment and throws his ass out into the cold city streets. From there he dials the cops and the guy gets pinched. It's very easy to imagine this sort of thing. Hell, i can even imagine wealthier women walking around with 2 robots at each side of them, as bodyguards. Why get a real human to guard you when you could have a bot with a metal fist and expert aim? The fastest gun in the West is by your side all day, for only $20,000.
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