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POPSThe Next Big Sensation? "Technological advances will someday be complemented by cultural changes, and cavorting with robots just won't seem weird anymore." Why is it important to humans that machines are beginning to touch us back? "It was incredibly important to humans when robots started to look at you, recognize a face and make eye contact," "The eye contact turned out to be a significant Darwinian button. We are hard-wired for that. That's how we sense the presence of an other. Same thing with touch. That is the way we connect with an other that knows about us, that understands us. It is in our evolution. We are hard-wired to communicate with each other by touch. It's how we stroke babies, how we want to be comforted. . . . "A heartbeat is a powerful way of signaling the presence"
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