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Dogged by guilt
The love of a programmer for a tabulator operator is just one expression of our desire to explore the outer limits of human sexuality.
Another, as we have been covering for the past few weeks, is a man’s love for his robot. If you recall, someone has just earned a PhD for a thesis on this subject.
“Didn’t Isaac Asimov cover this in the Foundation novels?” asks Tom Cooke.
We feel bound to point out that Dr Asimov’s contribution was fictional, but while we’re floating ideas, we have one of those little robot dogs on our desk that wiggles its head and flaps its ears to music.
If we had, er, a friend attracted to this little dog, would this be less appropriate than being attracted to a humanoid robot?
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