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Work Mate Marry Love - How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny (Hardcover)
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Work Mate Marry Love - How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny (Hardcover)
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What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as
reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of
creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as
medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of
sexual characteristics to another, or to remain happily perched in
between? What will happen to love and sex and romance as our
relationships migrate from the real world to the Internet? Can
people fall in love with robots? Will they? In short, what will
happen to our most basic notions of humanity as we entangle our
lives and emotions with the machines we have created? In Work Mate
Marry Love, Harvard Business School professor and former Barnard
College president Debora L. Spar offers an incisive and provocative
account of how technology has transformed our intimate lives in the
past, and how it will do so again in the future. Surveying the
course of history, she shows how marriage as we understand it
resulted from the rise of agriculture, and that the nuclear family
emerged with the industrial revolution. In their day, the street
light, the car, and later the pill all upended courtship and sex.
Now, as we enter an era of artificial intelligence and robots, how
will our deepest feelings and attachments evolve? In the past, the
prevailing modes of production produced a world dominated by
heterosexual, mostly-monogamous, two-parent families. In the
future, however, these patterns are almost certain to be reshaped,
creating entirely new norms for sex and romance, and for the
construction of families and the raising of children. Steering
clear of both techno-euphoria and alarmism, Spar offers a bold and
inclusive vision of how our lives might be changed for the better.
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