[extropy-chat] NYT: Virtual Girlfriend

[Mike Lorrey]

Talk about the worst features: she talks a lot, doesn't put out, burns
craters in your phone bill, knows more about your bank account than you
do, can locate you by GPS anywhere in the world, and has your cell
phone number. Why don't they just build a taser into the 3G phone so I
can self-administer the shocks to make it a thoroughly torturous
experience?

--- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com> wrote:

> NYT: Men, are you tired of the time, trouble and expense of having a
> girlfriend? Irritated by the difficulty of finding a new one?
> Eberhard Schöneburg, the chief executive of the software maker
> Artificial Life Inc. of Hong Kong, may have found the answer: a
> virtual girlfriend named Vivienne who goes wherever you go.
> Vivienne likes to be taken to movies and bars. She loves to be given
> virtual flowers and chocolates, and she can translate six languages
> if
> you travel overseas. She never undresses, although she has some
> skimpy
> outfits for the gym, and is a tease who draws the line at anything
> beyond blowing kisses.
> Vivienne, the product of computerized voice synthesis, streaming
> video
> and text messages, is meant not only to bring business to Artificial
> Life (she will be available for a monthly fee of $6, not including
> the
> airtime costs paid to cellphone operators or the price of virtual
> chocolates and flowers). But she is also meant to be a lure for the
> new, higher-tech, third generation, or 3G, cellphones.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/technology/24girlfriend.html
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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