‘Digital Babies’ and the Culture of Lifestyle Over a Culture of Life
9th July 2022
An article featured in British newspaper The Guardian forecasts a world in which it is commonplace for young adults and would-be parents to opt toward raising “digital babies” over having real children of their own. Powered by virtual reality and artificial intelligence, these “programmable and highly realistic children” would simulate play, emotional feedback, and the tactile feel of caring for offspring.
Cute, right?
I propose that they all bear the surname ‘Tamagochi’.
Actually, this isn’t a bad idea; there are a lot of people that I wouldn’t want to see actually reproduce, so this ‘digital baby’ might serve as a substitute for people whose offspring we’d really not want in our gene pool.