Facebook virtual friend's 1st step in the building of a new futurest

One the face of it, Facebook has return up with a neat very little plan to influence the lonely that they're less lonely than they suppose they're. The Facebook *chat bot* can, it seems, say greeting to you on social media then, like all true friend would, try and flog you stuff.

In some ways in which this can be a retrograde step, on condition that we tend to all have such a big amount of opportunities to create friends with a true human making an attempt to sell USA one thing, or chisel USA – anytime we tend to square measure contacted by a PPI claims firm, or somebody claiming to own been *given your details when a recent road traffic accident that wasn't your fault”, or asking USA however we would pick out the forthcoming Euro-referendum.

It is troublesome to imagine even the foremost gullible soul interpretation a message from associate degree automaton for the real heat of human friendship. Still, the technology is in its infancy. given some additional decades the *virtual friend* during a video game world might become the maximum amount a side of life because the *virtual workplace assistant* or  “virtual currency” has already become.

The internet of things, the progress of AI and therefore the advent of the driverless automobile may nevertheless bring USA the "virtual spouse", ready to cook, mend, chauffeur and run errands for his or her human bosses. A fantasy world of humans living like drones in large leisure hives beckons USA – or a minimum of those still young enough to be ready to live to fancy such a revolution.

As William Shakespeare, through Miranda within the Tempest, nearly aforementioned. *O brave new world, That has such virtual individuals in’t!*