Analyzing My Audience

1.  What values, ideas, norms, beliefs, even laws of the culture play an important role in the text?
     The values that this issue or these issues stem from is the production and invention of new and improved robotics.  If robots continue to improve as they have been in recent times, than these moral issues (intimate/personal/work) will continue to grow.  The laws of culture say that intimate and personal lives are influenced by human actions.  There social norms for personal/intimate experiences are between human and human.  These issues are important in todays world. For example, homosexual marriage is just recently becoming legal. In the future, people may feel emotions for technology (robots) like never before.  Valez talks about his very issue throughout his text.

2.  Does the text address these cultural values, beliefs, etc., directly (by directly mentioning and responding to them) or indirectly (by presenting a scenario or narrative that addresses them)?s     Valez addresses these cultural beliefs and values very directly.  He states the issue at hand and then discusses it, outright. He does include some examples of real life scenarios, etc. that have to do with the values/beliefs, but he immediately discusses the issues at hand.

3.  What is the relationship of the text to the values, beliefs, etc.? Is it critical of these aspects of the culture? Is it supportive? Does it seek to modify these aspects of the culture in a certain way?
     In the case of the work place, Valez's paper discuss the issue in support of robots being integrated into the work place. He thinks that robots will help productivity, rather than just steal jobs. In the case of personal relationships with robots, Valez agrees that it has become very possible for people to have close relationships with robots. He believes that because or their human like features, they should be able to have maintain relationships and have emotion with humans.  In the aspect of intimacy with robots, Valez believes that robots will continue to grow in popularity because of the human like aspects that they can now contain. He believes that there are moral and ethical issues with robots in human intimacy, but he assures readers that it is an ever increasing market, and society will form around the acceptance of the idea of intimate robots.