@Shadow_the_Hedgehog
I’ve seen it.
Personally I like it on how it doesn’t vilify or romanticize technology. Too many franchises go either, “Technological advancements are the devil” or go “This single piece of technological advancement will cure all disease, end world poverty and bring about world peace”.
Chobits actually presented the science fiction and potential societal fallout of sexbots in a extremely plausible way. It may have been a average anime, but it was certainly unique and worth a watch. Chobits is probably the most realistic representation of what is probably going to happen in the next decade.
Also yes I did think it was funny.
Yeah I’ll admit sexbots would case a population crash; BUT populations do not follow infinite growth patterns. That’s the problem with economics in the macros scale, they assume that the human race will grow to 100 trillion billion imaginary numbers and that’s a massive problem in economics. Eventually the human race will have a population crash regardless cause population growth does not follow infinite exponential growth. That’s going to fuck up the world’s economy, but that’s what pretty much every economic crash is caused by; some cigar smoking idiot that can crunch numbers but doesn’t realize common sense that infinite growth is a fundamental impossibility.
But on the other hand population decreases are not the end times, they are not ragnarok; just cause a country’s population decreases doesn’t mean fenrir ate odin and the world will be plunged into eternal darkness from being swallowed by a dragon. It’s just a macro scale function of society.
If you sit a math major in the same room as a economics major the math major by the end of the hour will be banging his head against the desk in a vain attempt to knock himself out.
I can imagine it now in 2030:
News, “Birth rates are down! The end is nigh! Repent! We have been forsaken and this is our divine punishment from which none shall be spared”
2040:
“We’re sorry for that severe over-reaction”