In a world where you can now design your perfect companion, artificial love will steal your heart. This is the future where New York City is one of the first places to accept robo-lovers. If you want a funny boyfriend, you can have it! If want a athletic girlfriend, she’s all yours. There is over 24 enjoyable personalities to choose from to fit anyone’s lifestyle. Not only that, but you can customize your own robot to match the person of your dreams including height, body shape, voice, and even their interests. Owning a robo-lover is easy, just charge their battery while you sleep and by day you have endless hours of fun. So skip the hassle of dating and come to New York to get yourself a robo-lover.

The idea for this post was to showcase how ads like this might exist one day in the future if we keep advancing with technology. If you ever been to build a bear then you know how easy it is to make a stuffed animal, so imagine if in the future people could just walk in a store and create their own lovers. To me, this idea is insane and problematic. Not only would the cost be similar to owning a luxury car, but imagine the amount of people trying to find alternatives like stealing one for themselves or selling counterfeits. This leads to the cyberpunk theme of highly advanced robots becoming too normalized as crime begins to sky rocket. The use of robots would end up ruining relationships and destroy human social skills. If someone’s robo-lover ends up breaking or having an irreparable problem then wouldn’t the person still experience grief and depression from the loss due to their strong bond. Also don’t forget the type of people who would become addicted and end up owning multiple of them. Robo-lovers seems like an easy fix for people who struggle with dating but looking at the idea overall, it seems like the bad outweighs the good.

This post was inspired by Patricia Albert’s post in the assignment bank called Stay Home – Living is dangerous which was about making a graphic based on a theme with contradictory texts. For mine I chose to do the cyberpunk theme based on New York because Times Square with all its illuminated buildings already looks really high-tech. For my graphic I wanted to make it look like it was advertising something which is how I thought of the idea of robo-lovers. I used Canva for the first time to create it, and besides the amount of content locked behind a paywall, I think it was still useful. I learned how to create on it pretty easily and was able to find the images of a robot reaching for a humans hand oddly fast for my vision of this idea. Since it was based on finding love I made sure to add hearts especially to make the New York picture and the hands pictures above look connected. Lastly, I wanted to push more of the New York inspiration so I used the famous saying, “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,” because the advertisement is about being able to create your own dream lover in this high-tech problematic future. Also for those unfamiliar with New York sayings, this post’s title is also a play on the phrase, “Empire State of Mind.”