Elmofongo: What if the andrioid malfunctioned before or during a surgery.

Espionage, I am certain the state an android is infiltrating will find ways to tell whether who is a person and who is a android sent by an enemy nation. And besides people are even more unpredictable than androids anyway.

adaliabooks: Only for positions where realism might be required or desirable (like Prah's aforementioned sexbots)

Sachys: Considering most of the socially popular technologies in the last 20 years have become popular because of the sex industry... this wont be any different.

Consider it - nobody used the interent really, until porn became available on it. Mobile phones were primarily for business men and drug dealers, until MMS came around and people started getting porn and maing and sending porn on them.
Same with the printed word - one of the early popular prints was an erotic cartoon series.

VR will also be the same. Nobody will be buy the new headsets until a porntrepreneur makes an interactive porno with it.

Prah: Human surgeons can malfunction as well (Faints or has an illness himself.) And
Human spies can get caught and be tortured.

Androids can withstand both of those! And if we had them during surgery, we would have figured out the kinks by then!

Sachys: ...and puppet-politics. Just look at David Camerons head - you know thats got a 1970s 10mb HD in it dont you!

adaliabooks: ROFL. You're posts never fail to make me smile Sachys :)

Sachys: we both know Thatcher transformed into a UFO and blasted off to report to the robotic overlords of dimension #111728-464.D and didnt die. she wasnt even senile - just her sensroy chips fried a little.

adaliabooks: Sounds about right.

I can certainly get behind your theory of Cameron being some kind android, and Clegg and Miliband too. It would certainly explain a lot.

Sachys: milliband is an escaped plstecine model from Aardman animations! O____o

Sachys: milliband is an escaped plasticine model from Aardman animations! O____o

Elmofongo: Androids, the kind you see in Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and the Matrix (Perticularly The Anmatrix which shows the how the whole story began) Am I the only one who thinks that in reality androids serve no purpose in reality?

Really in reality what is the point of creating Synthetic Andriods that look human, especially making them look human.

In the Animatrix there was this grusome sequence with an Android female being abused and killed by people during a riot. This Android looked so real until they ripped off its synthetic "skin" showing the Robot inside (its skin even has nipples on its breast?) But my question is why do they make them so human? I don't see the use of human looking androids beeing applied today. Also the idea of having robots do everything. In this day and age where people complain about lack of jobs and opportunities why would we want androids to do are jobs for us?

Despite the reasoning in sci fi like Blad Runner, Ghost in the Shell, Alien, etc. I just don't see the point of Androids in reality?

Ragnarblackmane: TL';DR version:People are obsessed with the concept of creating life, and a human-like android that can be whatever they want is alluring to many. Conversely, a lot of people use androids, like in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick's amazing novel that Blade Runner was based on and if you haven't read that yet then wtf are you doing still reading this, go find that book!) to explore what it means to be human.

Elmofongo: If only I had a book store like Borders around :(

foxworks: Back from the vet. Dog's a-okay. My wallet, not so much XD