ABSTRACT
If we cannot design robots that are like humans, we will design humans that are like robots. Moreover, robots need humans and humans need robots. This looks more symmetrical than it actually is. How symmetric are these relations? What we actually do is design a culture in the technological frame, and within such a frame, we live the lives of cyborgs. The word of choice here is “design,” not “creation,” “production,” or “manufacturing,” because we may never realize our designs. I will explain what this means in reference to novel desires or machine dreams. As examples, we can use airports, the existing military drones, and fi ctional domestic nanny robots. The methodology of this paper is praxeological even when it combines fact and fi ction.
