Attack of the Fembots!

Published: Sept. 27, 2017, 11:30 p.m.

b'Phil and Stephen continue their discussion with bestselling author PJ Manney about her new book (ID)entity. (Listen to Part 1 here.) Topics include:\\n\\nEquifax and security\\n\\nWould anyone believe this story if it were fiction?\\n\\nWhat consideration can we expect when we are the product?\\n\\nWhat will security issues look like when we begin connecting our brains to the internet?\\n\\nMore on how adult entertainment drives technological change.\\n\\nThe world\'s first robot brothel has opened in Spain.\\n\\nChina cracks down on rental sexbots.\\n\\nThe coming era of robo-weapons.\\n\\nHow the definition of "robot" is changing.\\n\\nHow our feelings about robots are changing.\\n\\nLaughing at robots.\\n\\nPlus -- what comes after the current (R)evolution / (ID)entity / (CON)science trilogy is complete?\\n\\nAbout PJ:\\n\\nPJ Manney is the author of the bestselling and Philip K. Dick Award nominated (R)EVOLUTION, book 1 in the Phoenix Horizon series. She is a former chairperson of Humanity+, the author of \\u201cEmpathy in the Time of Technology: How Storytelling is the Key to Empathy,\\u201d and a frequent guest host and guest on podcasts including the World Transformed. PJ is a culture vulture and SF geek, and the daughter and mother of them, too. When not contemplating the future of humanity, she is a mother, wife, and education activist in California.\\n\\nWT 350-659'