Talking Heads

Popular Science profiles David Hanson, "the man who mistook his girlfriend for a robot." (And if you like that article, check out Victoria Nelson's brilliant book The Secret Life of Puppets.)

Comments

[Steve in CO]

Bridging the uncomfortable gap between what is robotic and acceptable to what is cyborg-human and acceptable reminds me of the scene in Speilberg's A.I. where obselete robots were killed for sport ... I can certainly see that becoming a reality of course, Speilberg's hand-wringing warning will of course, be ignored.

[Swamp Justice]

This is a good example of the "Uncanny Valley: Why are monster-movie zombies so horrifying
and talking animals so fascinating?"

http://www.arclight.net/~pdb/glimpses/valley.html