No, really! According to a news peice on Sky News, some bloke called David Levy has penned a book called “Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships”, were he reckons that we’ll all be doing the dirty with robots by the year 2050. Even in 2006, a chappie called Henrik Christensen thinks we’ll all be “doing” robots in the even closer future. Like 5 years!

Apparently, ugly and fat people (i.e. me) will be so lonely and depressed that even real-life prostitutes won’t even want to take their money. Either that or “ladies of the night” won’t be around any more. So the only way for them to “get it on” will be to go and grab themselves a robot. With holes. Or sticky out bits. Depending on your preferences, obviously.

Now I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that these robots ain’t going to look like that Caprica 6 Cylon from Battlestar Galactica. Yeah, that’s one robot I’d like to stick my…err…flash drive in her…umm…USB port. Or something. I mean, if you take that Honda robot that’s doing the rounds at the moment and try and make hot sticky love to it, you’re going to get chaffed. A lot…

Sorry, but it’s just one of those wierd things that you have to post about. And this is a site about tech stuff…

I think I may have just gone overboard!

Regular visitors will probably remember a bit ago I posted about how the social site thing had become lost on me.

However, that sentiment is not shared by my other half, as she decided to sign up for Facebook a couple of days ago.  Aside from me asking why, when she’d never shown any interest in the social networking movement previously, there is actually a very good reason.

Being pregnant with our first at the moment she wanted to let her old school friends know, but only had contact with one of them via email.  Bit of digging later and she found out that quite a few of her old school buddies had signed up to Facebook and were active.  I have to say it seems to have turned out quite nicely too as she’s been able to catch up with quite a few people, tell them our news, find out what everyone else is up to etc.

Today, in a quiet moment at work (don’t get many of them these days, so it’s more a case of taking a quiet moment) I thought I’d do the obligatory tour of the site.  All looks simple to use, a clean interface, friend list management, and all that jazz; but it left me still thinking ‘why?’.

Breaking it down, it appeared to be nothing more than Flickr, which is already an excellent photosharing site, with a bit of blog software added on and profile management.  Am I missing the point? Can someone provide me reasons why it differs from something like Flickr and its other clones?

I have nothing against Facebook at all, as it is quite popular, and many people find it of value.  I just question its place in the online social networking future.

I meant to blog about this site when I registered on their forum a few days ago, but seeing as I have a memory like a sieve, I’m doing it now!

If you’re old enough to remember the ‘Golden Days of Gaming’, or prior to the PlayStation 1, then I can highly recommend taking a look.  Most definitley register on the forum as well, because that is where most of the action lies.

It’s a small community, but that’s where it’s charm lies.  Besides the odd conversation twists, and I must admit I’m responsible for quite a few lately on there, they’re a great bunch of people and would certainly welcome new enthusiastic members.

Just leave your sensibilities and ego at the door.  Both will be bashed, but all with tongue firmly in cheek.  Oh and don’t offer Bouncybhall any Appletise, as it gets ugly!

Two stories caught my eye on Digg today. I thought I’d share them with you.

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