What does it say about the life of our times that people, even children, look co machines in order to meet their basic emorional needs? Does this development provide evidence of a poverty in our...

What does it say about the life of our times that people, even children, look co machines in order to meet their basic emorional needs? Does this development provide evidence of a poverty in our social and culcural lives? Are we starved for affection, closeness, family, and friendship? Lf we are. does our cum co technological solutions remedy the problem or only make it worse? Will the technologies ofsimulation ultimately make us more machine-like? Are we crying co humanize our machines, or have machines become the fonn of life we aspire to?