There is an article in March Scientific American about relationships with robots entitled “Not Tonight, Dear. I Have to Reboot.” It proposes that a some point in the not too distant future, marriages with robots might be legal. In Massachusetts, anyway. The author of the article is David Levy who has a book out entitled “Love and Sex with Robots”.

Ridiculous, of course. There might be some who are not doing well enough with regular human beans for whom this might be a viable option. But still does not sit well.

But wait, there's more. You can go out right now and buy a robot dog for a pet. There are experimental robots that look and feel like skin and which will speak and react to your voice and expressions. Robots that children include as a playmate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRIO). Self-replicating machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine). Is a self replicating machine alive? DARPA has a car that drives itself (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_car). Roomba. Robots policemen and soldiers to go and get bombs or negotiate with bad guys. Predator. Not to mention computer bots. And how about virtual reality, Second Life? Why not a robot to marry?

And here I am, communicating with a machine. Explorer's (http://anexplorer.blogstream.com/) personality test (http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp) said I am a Fieldmarshall, ENTJ. Extroverted. Why am I communicating with a machine? And are any of you real? Is LalePop's (http://lalepopsart.blogstream.com/) art being done by a robot? Whom can tell? Some, like TAB and Johnny I know are not robots unless they made them with deviant circuits. The bottom line is, robots or real people, blogging is fun to do. How about marrying a robot? As much fun as a real human bean?