{"id":2249,"date":"2015-09-25T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2015-09-25T19:49:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:49:21","slug":"sex-robots-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/09\/25\/sex-robots-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex Robots, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader thinks the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/09\/25\/sex-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sex Robots<\/a> are just over the next hill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-reactid=\".q.1:5.0.1:$comment1143573235670307_1143622932332004\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".q.1:5.0.1:$comment1143573235670307_1143622932332004\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".q.1:5.0.1:$comment1143573235670307_1143622932332004\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".q.1:5.0.1:$comment1143573235670307_1143622932332004\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end\/=1$text0\/=010\">The objections seem all too PC to me. Absent a huge change in humanity, sex robots will push the envelope on robotics, just like porn sites pushed the envelope on web sites. And it&#8217;ll be big business, too. Here, the SF writers are way ahead of the game, too. Example reading: &#8220;Saturn&#8217;s Children&#8221; by Charles Stross (2008), &#8220;Blue Champagne&#8221; by John Varley (1986), and &#8220;Hammer&#8217;s Slammers&#8221; by David Drake (1979, ref. &#8220;flirts&#8221;).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader thinks the Sex Robots are just over the next hill: The objections seem all too PC to me. Absent a huge change in humanity, sex robots will push the envelope on robotics, just like porn sites pushed the envelope on web sites. And it&#8217;ll be big business, too. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/09\/25\/sex-robots-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}