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> People will be more and more lonely.

Or people might be less lonely. There will come a point where the online experience becomes worthless and people will place greater importance on face-to-face interaction. That's how it was 20 years ago.



Don’t worry, robots are coming for that too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates

Will be very hard to tell the difference until you are intimate


Why surrogates wouldn't be able to function as teledildonic proxies for 'intimacy'?


You'd be able to tell the difference.


Come on, how would you know the difference, if you'd grown up without ever have known the real thing?

To extrapolate the theme of that movie just a little bit further?




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