{"id":30714,"date":"2016-10-03T08:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T15:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/what-are-the-absolute-worst-cities-to-work-in-right-now"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:32:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:32:38","slug":"what-are-the-absolute-worst-cities-to-work-in-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/what-are-the-absolute-worst-cities-to-work-in-right-now","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Absolute Worst Cities to Work in Right Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My new story for TechCrunch on why a new generation of kids might \u201creally\u201d love robots. What would Freud say?<\/p>\n

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Robots intrigue us. We all like them. But most of us don\u2019t love<\/i> them. That may dramatically change over the next 10 years as the \u201crobot nanny\u201d makes its way into our households.<\/p>\n

In as little time as a decade, affordable robots<\/a> that can bottle-feed babies, change diapers and put a child to sleep might be here. The human-machine bond that a new generation of kids grows up with may be unbreakable. We may end up literally loving our machines almost like we do our mothers and fathers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve already seen some of this bonding in action. I have a four-foot interactive Meccanoid<\/a> robot aboard my Immortality Bus<\/a>, which I\u2019ve occasionally used for my presidential campaign. The robot can do about 1,000 functions, including basic interaction with people, like talking, answering questions and making wisecracks. When my five-year-old rides with me on the bus, she adores it. After being introduced to it, she obsessively wanted to watch Inspector Gadget videos and read books on robots.<\/p>\n

My two daughters (the other one is two years old) have always been near technology, and both were able to successfully navigate YouTube watching videos on iPhones by the time they were 12 months old. Yet, while my kids love the iPhone, and they want to use it regularly, it doesn\u2019t bond them to technology in a maternal sense like the Meccanoid robot does. More importantly, the smartphone doesn\u2019t bond them to technology in an anthropomorphic sense \u2014 where one gives technology human attributes, like personalities.<\/p>\n

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