I just wanted to post this article that I found very relevant to some of our discussions:

The companies bringing inanimate objects to life

By Michael Millar Business reporter

It seems unlikely that Dr Frankenstein’s monster-making antics would shock people today in quite the same way they did when his story was published in 1818.

Not because we’ve seen it all before, mind you.

Rather, in a tech-savvy world, people increasingly expect connectivity and interaction as a matter of course.

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