Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Future robots?
I've been thinking about where humans are headed since class on Tuesday. All the talk about chips inplanted in the head, eye cameras, and other things that basically transform humans into computers...aka, robots. There are so many movies out there that depict what life would be like if robots were here-- the top 5 according to the Times Online are 5. Robocop, 4. Virtuosity, 3. Knight Rider, 2. A Space Odyssey (2001), and 1. The Terminator. There's a list of 50 movies with robots, 50! Apparently film directors are already ahead in the times and are creating what they believe the world could be like with robots. I'm not such a big fan of robots. Sure, they're cool and can do things more efficiently, quicker, and so on...but I look at it as people becoming even more lazy. Unless there's a good reason we need robots around, I don't think they should just take over peoples' jobs. It's scary to think about humans becoming the robots, which is an entirely different thing. If little things were programmed into our brains and other parts to make us robotic, wouldn't we all be the same? The point is to be different from one another, so why try to make us all alike? It might be cool at first to take pictures from your eye and store them in your brain, but the newness and uniqueness of it fade quickly because everyone can do it. If robots are where technology is headed, count me out.
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