Kurzweil discussed the ideas of nanotechnology and molding ourselves with machines. The future, perhaps, involves us being like cyborgs, part human and part machine. This already sort of exists as we replace certain body parts with machines, such as limbs or pacemakers. However, a recent Japenese invention has created a machine that emulates kissing. Before, machines have been about aiding our bodies, but this is perhaps one of the first steps to using machines to please us emotionally.
The machine allows a person in one place to have their emulation of kissing transformed to another machine at another place. Kind of like the idea of the virtual workplace, you are experiencing another person without actually being together. This could easily be manipulated, as the article says, to fantasies where people are kissing someone like a celebrity (perhaps celebrities selling their “kissing” style). This explores the ethics of removing emotion from the physical.
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