There is a difference between what you want and getting what you think you want. Technology gives us more and more of what we think we want. These days, looking at sociable robots and digitized friends, one might assume that what we want is to be always in touch and never alone, no matter who or what we are in touch with Many animals spend most of their waking hours looking for food and eating it. They search their environment for things to eat. Some animals search alone, and others search together, but in general they get their food directly from nature.
First, might assume that what we want is plenty of weak ties, the informal networks that underpin online acquaintanceship. At other angles, the image will be seen as a trapezoid. The edge of the door towards us looks wider than the edge hinged with the frame. We have to be able to read a particular system of distortions that has been used to translate the original three-dimensional scene into a two-dimensional reproduction. Second, if we pay attention to the real consequences of what we think we want, we may discover what we really want. We may want some stillness and solitude. As an American writer once put it, we may want to live less 'thickly' and wait for more infrequent but meaningful dialogs with social robots. Third, we put in our many hours of typing with all gingers or just thumbs we may discover that we miss the human voice. we may decide that it is fine to play chess with a robot, but that robots are unfit for any conversation about family or friends.
A robot might have needs, but to understand desire, one needs language and flesh. We may decide that for these conversations, we must have a person who knows, firsthand, what it means to be born, to have parents and a family, to wish for love and perhaps children, and to anticipate death. And, of course, we must not let the virtual take us away form the real world that doesn't go away with a power outage.