There’s been a lot of talk about Dr. David Levy and Love and Sex With Robots (or as we like to think of it, the emotionally articulate fuckbot takeover) — and last night, no less than Stephen Colbert decided to tackle the issue, inviting Dr. Levy…

It’s mere hours from the dawn of 2008, which means we’re hurtling ever closer to “the future.” And with the future comes the rise (and, duh, takeover) of the emotionally articulate fuckbots. Right? Right?

Well, something like that — at least if you believe people…

At some point, perhaps when we were sleeping, people started talking about having sex with robots. And marrying robots. And not as a joke, either: as a real future possibility, apparently set to take Massachusetts by storm within the next half century.

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