Sunday, February 24, 2008

Machine Sex

I really liked this short story, but I am not totally sure if i can explain myself as to why. I think it is because of the really strong outstanding female character. Angel learns a lot about life in this story and how difficult it is to survive in a man's domain (AI intelligence) in this world. Angel got (to use her terminology.. sorry Dr. Jones) "fucked over" a lot when trying to make her way to the top. First with her boyfriend selling their company without her permission or even acknowledgement and in turn he also sold her. Angels intelligence was constantly being taken advantage of and it seems like every time she would make a breakthrough about AI technology, there was always a man there to take the credit.
However, I would just like to finish my blog with a comment on robots having orgasms and sexual encounters much the same as humans. I am not sure how to respond to that section of the story because I believe that it is completely unethical and well.. just plain weird.. but those are just my views..haha..
Does anyone else have any views about these promiscuous Robots and their sexual encounters with humans?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I liked the aspects of the story which showed Angel's strength as well.

Anonymous said...

Not sure about robots ... the computer gave sexual pleasure to the user.

Re. language: hey, no need to apologize to me. I assigned the reading!