British engineer and part-time writer George Zharkadakim claims that in the near future robots will have sex, but not for pleasure, but exclusively for procreation. Futurologist Maxim Kalashnikov admits that this is possible, but only the process of "birth" of a robot will be radically different from that long known to mankind.
“Robots do not need sex in our understanding of the word to reproduce. A robot face without a gender, by the way. So making them imitate human reproductive relationships is completely unnecessary. The robots themselves, if they have artificial intelligence, will be able to launch production lines and produce their own kind."
Obviously, the mechanisms of conception and birth of a new robot will in no way resemble the analogous process in humans. One of the options might look like this: smart machines will exchange files, and a 3D printer will print out a newborn android. That is, it can take several minutes from the process of "conception" to birth. George Zharkadakim is confident that sex will protect robots from viruses and make them more reliable.
At the same time, the writer-engineer, predicting the future, goes even further and predicts interspecies crossing, as a result of which powerful hybrids of a robot and a person will be born. They will have the most unexpected properties. It turns out that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is also valid for machines. Eduard Proydakov, chief analyst of the autonomous non-profit organization "Modernization", disagrees with this. He reminds a colleague from Britain that the person himself has not yet been fully studied.
“Man as a device is a biological system about which we do not know very much. But 30 years is a long time. I think that during this time there will be colossal breakthroughs in understanding exactly how a person is arranged: in 10-15 years "printing" of organs will be possible. But such hybrids, it seems to me that it is not very interesting. They are cyborgs in essence. I think that humanity simply will not go this way."
In this regard, of course, one can recall how mankind in the 19th century treated the novels of Jules Verne about flights to the moon and scuba diving on the Nautilus. Then the writer's fantasies were perceived with a smile. But if suddenly, 30 years later, you meet a person on the street who, in an electronic voice, says to you: “I need your clothes, boots and a motorcycle,” don't worry - everything is going according to the plan of British scientists, and robots have already mastered 3D printers.
