Marry A Robot

A sad misguided South Korean man has married his beloved pillow case which has the image of his favourite anime girl on it. He actually hired a priest to perform the ceremony, invited guests, and had pictures taken.  Friends are quoted as saying that he takes his pillow girlfriend, now wife, everywhere. Why doesn’t someone help this man?

Sadly, this is part of a larger phenomenon of marrying inanimate objects and nonhuman things.  In 2008 a German married his pineapple named Tippi. And of course who can forget the man who married his video game girlfriend.

While we may consider these people’s infatuation with something that does not exist as funny it points to a blurring between what is real and what is not. As we spend more and more of our lives in the virtual world,  we begin to lose touch with what is real. For example,  a couple apparently had a real life divorce when one caught the other “cheating” with a virtual character on Second Life.  It’s not real, people!

Of course this means that once technology perfects sexbots and other companion type robots, there will be no shortage of people wanting to marry their robot partner. We are doomed.