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May 05, 2010

The apotheosis of posthumanism

Japanese engineers say they would prefer to send a humanoid robot to the Moon rather than, say, a Japanese person.

It's the future of Japan, really.

"We decided on a human-like robot because it's more fascinating and stimulating for us," said association director Hideo Sugimoto to the Daily Yomiuri newspaper. "We'll make an attractive robot to carry our dreams to the universe."

Attractive robots can be fascinating and stimulating it's true. For making babies, not so much.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 5, 2010 10:23 AM

Comments

By the year 2200 Japan will be entirely populated with only synthetic people. Will their android descendents dream of electric anime tentacle pr0n?

Posted by: Enas Yorl [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 5, 2010 11:13 AM

Reminds me of the replacement toy Japanese robotics wizbangers came out with a few years back:

"Yumi." No, not pronounced "YUMMY", but rather "YOOOMI."

It says (in the affectionate, pseudo-child talk, in Japanese) such things as "I wuv you!" and "Are you my mommy?"

The children that barren Japanese women could not be bothered to have...are robots that feign the need for love and attention from the people no longer around you.

Talk about a cultural disconnect.

"'domo arigato' mr. roboto"

For those wondering if there IS some kind of Cosmic Justice in the world (and I used to have doubts myself) nothing could be more indicative of the failures of the modern arthritic secularist state than Japanese cultural infertility and the final triumph of the working woman's final battle over the womb, or Eurosocialist glop, than the fact that these supposed paradises on Earth--these New Jerusalem's--are apparently so hip and gay and free and loving and nurturing and overflowing with cornucopia of government handouts that....


well...they don't feel the need to bequeath all the sumptuous goodness to the next generation.

Or even have one.

Posted by: Swtolbert [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 5, 2010 10:33 PM

Oh, I don't know. Technology can now make babies in a test tube; the next step to an artificial womb is, I would think, easier. And all this can be encased in a pleasing, plastic female-like robot. What's not to like about that?

Posted by: Frank Hilliard [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 6, 2010 01:36 PM