{"id":1131,"date":"2005-02-24T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/24\/speaking-of-over-attachment-to\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:38","slug":"speaking-of-over-attachment-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/24\/speaking-of-over-attachment-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Over-attachment to the Inanimate"},"content":{"rendered":"

companion toys for Japanese elderly people<\/a><\/p>\n

\nAs Japan produces fewer children and more retirees, toymakers are designing new dolls designed not for the young but for the lonely elderly — companions which can sleep next to them and offer caring words they may never hear otherwise.
\nTalking toys have become such a hit that some elderly people have embraced them as substitutes for the children who have grown old and deserted entire neighborhoods in the rapidly greying country.
\n . . .
\n“Thank you for giving me a heart-warming baby. I’m no longer alone,” an 82-year-old woman wrote while another senior woman said she was raising the doll “as my own child”.
\n . . .
\nThe robot’s maker Dream Supply said the Snuggling Ifbot had the conversation ability of a five-year-old — considered just enough for small talk to keep the elderly from going senile.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What does it mean to love a machine?
\n We can program them to be what we want.
\n The toy will never forget us.
\n&nbsp
\n But we forget it.
\n No need to worry about finding it a home for
\n . . . afterwards.
\n 
\n It has no soul.
\n Cast it aside.
\nTag: Anthropomorphize<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

companion toys for Japanese elderly people As Japan produces fewer children and more retirees, toymakers are designing new dolls designed not for the young but for the lonely elderly — companions which can sleep next to them and offer caring words they may never hear otherwise. Talking toys have become such a hit that some … Continue reading Speaking of Over-attachment to the Inanimate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}