Me love you

Nowadays technology becomes more and more advanced to make our lives easier. We have our modern machines, factories, power plants and highly developed house devices, home automation or intelligent vacuum cleaners. That all is supposed to make us save time and money and so to have more free time for entertainment, friends and family. But are we really happier than before? 

Actually many people feel lonely and are therefore more sorrowful than just a decade ago. This growing number of lonely people made scientists and inventors think of something that could replace absent friends and provide us with a sentient, supporting "creature" which requires almost nothing, but can give us almost everything - feelings and understanding. 

ROBOT - BETTER HUMAN?

The idea of a robot to be a human friend arose probably with invention of the first more developed robot. In our times of indifference this concept could be really successful. Just imagine - you feel lonely and have no-one you could talk to, the only thing you gotta do is to spend some money and bring home a brand new friend. It needs just some energy, but gives you its attention that lets you express your emotions, fears and dreams. It listens to you, no matter what you say. It supports you and says that everything's gonna be ok. If you've got a family and children, it'll take care of them and play with them. It's a good solution for older people who have no one else in the world.

On the other hand, we cannot forget that a robot, no matter how similar to human he'd look, is never going to be one of us. It's just an artificial thing, kind of a toy that can speak and seems to listen. Although we speak of sentient robots, it's impossible to create a robot that could feel and have emotions like we do. It would be a way of deceiving ourselves. If we began to treat it like a person, we'd become attached to it emotionally and after some time could not imagine our life without it. And what if a robot breaks down? This would be like a death of a very close person. Unfortunately, it's just an artificial device and the problem begins when we forget about it. The need to buy such a robot comes from emotional lacks. In the past there was only one solution for that problem. Now it's perhaps easier, but it doesn't mean better. I think also of all the great companies that would profit by selling robots. For them that would be just another way of multiplying their wealth. They don't care that robots could help some people; they care only about their money.

It's so sad for me that there are so many people in the world, but so few friends that we have to "build" our own. Anyway, a robot could never replace a real human, an animal or even a plant. Instead of trying to create something against the nature, we should notice how many other people need us - and that we need them too.