What is it and why?
If pornography is a bit too risque for your tastes, pick a different video genre: android reality TV, android soap operas (oil operas?), late-night shows for sleepless androids. Whatever.
Ulterior motive
Have you ever wondered what qualifications one needs to be called a "futurist"? No? I have — whenever I see another tech article that quotes this or that futurist. I'm imaginative, and I love thinking about the future, and occasionally I'm right.* Is that enough to make me a futurist and get me quoted in a Wired article? |
| Still from Bjork's "All Is Full of Love" video. If you haven't seen it, you should. |
But I sense that you don't care about futurism as much as I do. That's fine.
All android-based fiction is really an exploration of what it means to be human by looking at the world from the perspective of an almost-human. (A great many android tales are shades of Pinocchio, but that isn't a requirement.)
I picked android pornography specifically because pornography appeals to base desires, and I think it's interesting to think about what base desires an android might have, or what base desires a human might program into it.
*I predicted the emergence of carbonated iced tea. I think the next big fad is going to be fruits, vegetables, and other foods given the "french fry" treatment. And I don't mean just breading and frying, but formed into sticks and served in a paper cup. We've already seen sweet potato fries, and BK is bringing back chicken fries. More exotic fried sticks (avocado? eggplant? jicama?) are surely on the way.