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The Perfect Lover by Paul Di Filippo

“Love is the driver for the mission. Love will supplement the drone’s heuristics in instances where lesser imperatives would collapse. Without that emotion, the failure rate goes up an order of magnitude. And we can’t simulate love yet in the purely moletronic minds.”


 
 

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Title: The Perfect Lover

Author: Paul Di Filippo

Length: short story

First Publication: Nature, 2006

What the Story is About: “Love is the driver for the mission. Love will supplement the drone’s heuristics in instances where lesser imperatives would collapse. Without that emotion, the failure rate goes up an order of magnitude. And we can’t simulate love yet in the purely moletronic minds.”

Published in the “Futures” series of short fiction in the scientific journal Nature

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Categories: 2000-2009Cultured Tissues and OrgansDi Filippo - PaulNatureNeuroscienceShort Fiction

 
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