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Letter: Robot love

Published 26 February 2014

From John Brown

Your leader on getting hitched to robots was quite right: “The love for a robot may become a love that dare not speak its name” (15 February, p 5). But first we need a name to avoid mentioning. How about “automating”? The robot itself (herself? himself?) could then be an automate. And presumably give you a lovebyte.
Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, UK

Issue no. 2958 published 1 March 2014

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