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Are we the sexbots? Tech vs. consent
Thoughts from watching quite a bad film about robots
At least in Futureworld Blythe Danner gets to have a thoroughly embarrassing soft focus dream sequence where she dances with and beds Yul Brynner’s electric cowboy, for very little reason beyond answering the glaring question of ‘is there anything on offer if you’re not one of the bro’s?’ The guys making most of the decisions about our daily lives grew up on these sort of SF fantasies, and unashamedly trumpet their love of them, not as analogues or dystopias, but simple blueprints for the future. If Delos’ resorts had human staff in the supporting roles, including all those comely sex workers playing the waitresses and wenches and temple virgins, some guests might feel bad about abusing them.
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