From Birger Johansson
The patent for remote-control robotic sex
(20 January, p 7)
will come as no surprise for readers of Stanislaw Lem’s novel, Peace On Earth.
Lem, who predicted nanotechnology and virtual reality as early as 1963, also
anticipated another application for full-sized remote control
mannequins—as a proxy for criminals committing robbery.
When the police backtracked the signals to the remote control, they would
find a second, abandoned mannequin at the controls for the first one. For more
information, see the official Lem website at www.lem.pl.
Umeå, Sweden
