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So-called “quick dates” are a format parties during which the romantically acquainted people. Participants are split into random pairs and a few minutes communicate, after which new couples form, until each man and the woman will not talk to each other. At the end of the event, if mutual sympathy arose between certain personalities, they can exchange phone numbers or leave together.
In the Land of the Rising Sun, where electronic technology replaced many people with live communication, there is a problem the impossibility of creating new families. The Japanese, unlearned to walk on date and meet live, afraid to make contact with opposite gender, resulting in a lonely image of life. Metropolitan Robotics Company Contents Innovation Program “decided to help fellow countrymen find love, however, for this I again had to resort to high technology. Specialists organized “quick dates” for shy Tokyo whose time there is no need to talk.
Each participant must pass the test by answering artificial intelligence to a hundred questions about yourself. Then man and woman sit down at a table on which two small funny robot. They are talking among themselves, speaking in as a kind of “avatars” for potential lovers. Such “proxy acquaintances” were incredibly popular, and more and more residents and guests of Tokyo want to accept them participation.
Meanwhile, many users of the World Wide Web called this approach to romantic communication is unreasonable, surrogate and miserable. According to critics, this innovation clearly demonstrates the decline human culture amid rapid technological progress. It is possible that in the foreseeable future the Japanese (and residents of other nations, too) will completely stop interacting with each other with a friend live by entrusting this important duty to robotic to intermediaries. Science fiction writers have long warned us of such the unenviable future, and it’s possible, albeit only with a stretch, to say that in some places it has already arrived.
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