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Electric Dreams - Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism - cover

Electric Dreams - Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism

Heather Parry

Casa editrice: 404 Ink

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In the future, we'll all be having sex with robots… won't we?

Roboticists say they're a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot topic?

Electric Dreams picks apart the forces that posit sex robots as either the solution to our problems or a real threat to human safety, and looks at what's being pushed aside for us to obsess about something that will never happen.
Disponibile da: 21/03/2024.
Lunghezza di stampa: 112 pagine.

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