>>32109894>You are a shortsighted motherfucker, practically nigger tier.And you're not even considering the relationships between energy, societal complexity and technological progress. It's not that we don't have the potential to achieve all that kind of cool stuff, but that we're starting to run out of the resources that enable such abundance and innovation.
For example, oil makes the world go around. It's an incredibly energy-dense miracle material that has no equal or alternative application-wise in either fossils or renewables. It's used in the production and/or transportation of everything we know and own today, but we're nearing/at global peak oil. When oil discovery and extraction rates plateau and start falling, energy and commodities will start getting more expensive and less available to the public, leading to a halt in development and growth in many specialized sectors, first and foremost the luxury ones. An autonomous sex bot is exactly the kind of niche thing no one's gonna be able to afford to develop, or buy, in our world 10-20 years from now. They'd be too expensive and wasteful for anyone but the top-earning consumers, of whom there will be too few to support such a company.
Furthermore, why would you waste energy, resources and space on something as complex as a consumer-grade sex bot when you could spend the effort developing full-dive VR instead, where people can have even greater life-like experiences at the overall footprint of just a little headset?
