Yesterday, KC bemoaned the fact that in Italy there's a vending machine that makes pizza and in Spain, a robot that makes paella. In his wisenheimer way, he suggested that this strikes him as taking technology too far. But in The New Yorker, there is a piece that softened his attitude - a program that has provided more than 20,000 animatronic pets to elderly people dealing with loneliness.
You can read the entire New Yorker piece here.