Human + Robot = Marriage?

That is probably one of the most ridiculous concepts I have ever heard of, but apparently a scientist in The Netherlands believes that in a little less than 50 years, this could be a plausible concept. According to this scientist, he believes that if one person were to, for example, post an article in a magazine such as Cosmo, stating that they had incredible sex with a robot and that everyone else should do it too, that everyone truly would do it as well.

At first I found this hard to believe. Who on earth would want to get married to a robot? How would the robot have children? How would you be able to combine your DNA together to make a child? Not surprisingly, since I had my Urban Economic Geography midterm last week, the thought of how birth rates in countries like Canada are already extremely low, to the point that deaths will eventually overtake births came into my mind. By 2050, will we still be having children? Will be having limited amounts of children?

Back onto the topic, I thought about how exactly such an idea would spread. Through word of mouth? This seems hard to believe as this would take forever and the phenomena of having sex with robots wouldn't spread as quickly as the scientist would have thought. Clearly some sort of Mass or Public Communication technique would allow this to spread easily.

If posted in a magazine such as Cosmo, People or even Time, the articles could be written extremely eloquently, to the point where people are automatically convinced, especially weak minded or naive people, not to say that the latter three magazines are read by not-so-bright people but you never know.

For example, take this infomercial parody of Facebook, an extremely popular site where you could basically find old classmates, currently classmates, chat up on someones wall, join groups, find the latest events in your area and more. If I didn't know what Facebook was, I would have been easily moved by this infomercial and would have been like "Wow, I'm going to go find my friends right now!" but instead, being a heavy Facebook user myself, I found this to be a hilarious interpretation of Facebook. Through the right communication techniques, the smartest person in the world can be convinced to believe the most outrageous things.