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How technology will revolutionise relationships

AI, VR, and robots are changing what it is to be human

16th March 2022
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Faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University, and author of Relationships 5.0 (Oxford University Press, 2022)

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Human families settled down in the early agricultural period. Networked individuals triumphed in the information era. Revolutions in technology have always revolutionised human relationships. Today, three technological shifts are setting the stage for the next major overhaul. When technology will soon meet our emotional and social needs, it's time to prepare for the changes ahead, writes Elykaim Kislev.

 

We already feel very comfortable asking Amazon’s Alexa to play a song we like, to answer simple questions, or to remind us about important events. The Covid-19 pandemic taught us all how fast we can move our human-to-human interactions online and how quickly we can adapt to connecting with our loved ones using technological means. How far can it go from here? No longer playing the matchmaker, technology is now making the transition to a relationship partner and becoming an independent actor, no matter its creators’ intentions.

krists luhaers 582238 unsplash SUGGESTED READING The Good Life in the 21st Century: Living Single By Bella DePaulo In order to understand the changes we are experiencing now, it is helpful if we first examine the evolution of relationships from early prehistoric time until today. If we understand how technology impacted human beings in the past, we might get some insight into how other developments will influence us in the future. Moreover, awareness of the various forms of relationships from the past might open our eyes to the different meanings and variations they might carry in the future. Relationships need not be tied to the common models found in recent history and might evolve as technology develops.

For this reason, in my new book, Relationships 5.0, I survey four significant periods in human history, each of which signifies a fundamental technological development. The first is Hunter-gatherer society (Society 1.0), which was based on the basic technologies of hunting, gathering, fishing, and scavenging. The second is agricultural society (Society 2.0), which was based on the technology of farming. The third is industrial society (Society 3.0), which was based on innovations such as the steam engine, electricity, and manufacturing processes. The fourth and most recent is information society (Society 4.0), based on computers and the Internet.

Elyakim Kislev
16th March 2022

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William MOBBERLEY 17 March 2022

Let's not put a tooth in it. Let's tell it how it really is.

Feminism has been a social catastrophe for relationships. The modern, entitled, combative, bolshie feminist has little to offer apart from what's between her legs and that carries with it considerable financial and material risk for the man should she fall pregnant. Increasingly we read the phrase: "The juice isn't worth the squeeze."

Amen to that!

Faced with the end of women as viable life-partners, men are understandably walking away, turning their backs and reassigning their lives to achieve happiness without women who are no longer fit for marriage nor motherhood (given how many murder their children in the womb.) MGTOW is rising, regardless of the myriad hostile (and false) definitions out there.

Given that women have lost their value (and the plot) it should come as no surprise that men are developing alternatives for sexual gratification. When I was a child, sex dolls were a joke and men who used them were seen as inadequate perverts. Fast forward to 2022 and sex dolls are well and truly out of uncanny valley. 65% of men say they would happily have intercourse with one and rightly point out that women have been having sexual relations with inanimate objects for decades (Rabbits, anyone?)

Seen within the context of masturbation aids, modern sex dolls are very sophisticated versions. Although they could never replace a truly sensual, loving, responsive woman, if some poor guy is married to a fat, middle-aged old bag who hardly ever gives it out and when she does, sex is the equivalent of flapping about on top of a dead walrus, a silicone or TPE sex doll will win hands down. For an army of disillusioned, shafted, middle-aged men, sex dolls will increasingly be the way forward.

Such dolls spell the death knell for feminism because they remove from women the last hold which women had over men - sexual gratification.

A doll won't steal your house, kids, car, dog and demand maintenance payments ad infinitum without giving anything back in return. That alone makes them a better bet for men in the modern age already.

Advances in AI, robotics etc. will lift sex dolls even further out of uncanny valley. Companies are offering bellows to make it seem like the doll is breathing with internal heaters to map the heat distribution externally and internally. Breath coming out of her nose and mouth will be warm.

Men report literally forgetting that they weren't having sex with a real woman. Even 51% of the way there is good enough.

Women should be very afraid. If you do not know why, look up a company called Starpery for a taste of the competition women will be up against. (Add a dot. Add a com.)

Time to turn back into women and learn to cook, girls. You need to have more to offer than a fancy career, two tits, a fanny and a big gob, hardwired to a lousy personality. Men don't need you anymore. You did this.