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The inspiration for this story is twofold. A love of ‘possibilities’ and a fascination for man’s capacity for good and evil.

Robotics is set to become the biggest disrupter of society since the industrial revolution, when machinery saw the agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America become industrial and urban. The bank of England believes that over the next 20 years (yes that’s 20 not 200) robots of varying sophistication could take over 80 million American and 15 million British jobs. That’s 50% of the workforce.

That is an incredibly sobering prediction and has a whole swag of ramifications for our lives and those of our children. I began thinking about what has driven previous disruptive technology, and clearly the biggest disrupter in our lifetime has been the internet. Many industries and market forces have driven the internet over the last 25 years, in fact there are too many to mention, but one of the biggest has been the sex industry.

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