A robot pet may start out being better than nothing but can end up better than the real thing (Image: Angela Wyant/Stone/Getty)
Our lives have become bold technological experiments, but we need to think hard before letting the computers and robots take over, says Sherry Turkle
EVERYWHERE we turn, we face unprecedented technological change. On one hand there are the temptations of the sociable robots in the lab and on the horizon, machines that offer themselves as ready – or nearly ready – to talk to us about almost anything. Where once artificial intelligence researchers proposed artefacts that would win…
