The waterproof robot

Subject: The waterproof robot. 

As the digital age impacts on our vision of the real world, creating instead an avatar existence on a smart phone in direct competition to the reality around, our young, head down in a gaming room or engaged in a digital interaction with a friend they have never met  is the position many young people find themselves today. Link that with online bullying and the intense personal criticism which goes far beyond what one would expect to face in face to face communication, is it any wonder that many people are seeking help as they suffer some sort of mental impairment. 
The trend in some countries has seen the young withdraw into their bedroom rather than go out seeking relationships outside. Their world exists on the web where the impact of boy meets girl can be be made much more plausible by ensuring that the flesh has no chance of being corrupted by passion and the susceptibility to romance is handled on ones own terms by never turning up for the date. 

It's argued of course that the worlds population will plummet if we all followed the Japanese example where young men are reportedly turning real relationships aside for imaginary ones found on the internet and that their intimate sensibilities are under the control of which ever digital platform you happen to be tuned into. With a lack of intimacy the chance of babies falls way drastically as does the economic model for a balance between the workforce and the aged. Perhaps this will be no bad thing in a place like Japan where the development of robots to do work and act as surrogate companions in the nursery relieves this burden of needing people to do the role of making things or tasked with the job of carer for the elderly.  
In our own society where we are far less imaginative as how we are going to handle the changes needed in the workforce through robotisation, where the uneducated will be permanently forced out of the work  and even the middle class will find that Artificial Intelligence will make the work they do redundant. Only the super-rich will benefit as the rewards a work force generate  won't have have to shared out as wages and the phenomenon we know as AI will eventually take care of itself. 

Perhaps that is the final solution to global warming and the real reason why world leaders seem not to care, they have in mind a heat resisting, waterproofed robot, impervious to climate change, beavering away to fulfill what ever the investment buffs considered appropriate.