Machines Overcoming Humans

Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld are the authors of the article “The Influencing Machines”. This article is about technology and is written through a comic-style form. Gladstone’s main idea on this article is that we should not fear technology. Gladstone’s and Neufeld’s comic-style article about technology is the best way to convey her argument because it gives visuals to express her argument, has a different form of arrangement of her details and thesis, and she gives examples of modern technology that should not scare us.

The article ‘Rise of the Machines’ is Not a Likely Future (2015), Michael Littman addresses the issue and worries that people have with regards to technology. The article attempts to persuade readers to believe that there is no need to fear technology as it is just not possible that they can overtake humanity. Zeynep Tufekci touches on the issue of machines taking over jobs of human, titled “The Machines are Coming (2015)”. She attempts to argue that there is no need to reject or blame technology for taking over jobs at the workplace. Littman’s argument is stronger than Tufekci as he provided logical reasoning due to a well balanced structure with consideration of opposable viewpoints with substantial evidence and effective usage of Pathos to appeal to the reader. Tufecki’s argument is weak due to the lack of evidence and her claim was only brought in at the end of her article which makes it seem very lop-sided.

By having access to so much technology, we can use it to do things for us, things that make us the individuals we are. Like when it feels that it is unnecessary to do something because there is an easier way to do it, it doesn’t necessarily mean you should avoid doing it yourself. Such as in the story, when it said that magazines and books didn’t sell anymore. People stopped reading because they felt that there was no importance to it when reading is something that makes a lot of people who they are. If everybody feels the need to be the same, or take the easy way out, things will turn out very boring and there will be no individuality left. The world doesn’t need 6 billion of the same person. So next time you can take the easy way out, always consider the benefits of doing it yourself. Because technology won’t always work out in our

As Billy Cox once stated, “Technology should improve your life...Not become your life.” This factual quote also applies to the theme of “The Veldt”, by Ray Bradbury. Technology should never be trusted and this short story very well proves this claim. It highlights the theme of preventing technology from overtaking the human society, and this is explained by the brilliant use of figurative language, such as imagery and personification. In “The Veldt,” ; the parents own a nursery that contains a machine. However, their children get attracted to the machine. Subsequently, the parents attempt to stop the children -before it’s too late-. Unfortunately, the children terminate their parents with the machine. The main reason

"All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines."

We as people rely on technology too much by expecting the machine to do something by the click of a button and get angry when the machinery isn’t working. At the beginning technology wasn’t thought of too much but at this point technology is getting people addicted from kids to the elderly.

We rely on technology nowadays to do simple tasks for us like dry our hair, research answers on the web, and watch television for entertainment and for the news. Technology is being over used for very simple things, what if we relied on them too much as a whole for us to forget doing simple task? Would it be helpful to us that we rely on technology to do everything for us? In the story "The Veldt", the author Ray Bradbury communicates that the misuse of technology can lead to unforeseen disadvantages, he demonstrates the theme through his uses of imagery and symbolism.

In the short story, The Machine Stops by E.M Froster, a dystopian future is shown where everything is run by ‘the machine’. This story is through the prediction of Vashti and follows her and her son, Kuno who lives on the other side of the world. The earth surface is said to be unlivable so everyone lives underground. The machine helped people live and be happy and everyone came to love it and need it. These two characters struggle to live and communicate in this world controlled by the machine. Human interaction was uncommon, if you wanted to talk to someone you would do it from your room like we do now on FaceTime. Everyone is uneducated on new ideas and stick to the basics. But Kuno believes there's more to this world and that the machine isn't required. He confides in his mother and tells her how he went to the earth’s surface illegally. He tells her how other people lived there without the help of the machine. Her son is caught and taken away by the machine and threatened with death. Vashti doesn't think too much into this absurd situation and continues on with her life.

Even though technology in “The Machine Stops” and technology today have many differences, many characteristics are in common. The futuristic modern technology in “The Machine Stops is very dependable as well as modern day technology, except that in “The Machine Stops” everything is machine generated. Most people today communicate on the cell phone or text messages. Frequently, people may be contacted over video messages as well. In “The Machine Stops” the most common way to communicate is by pictures or video messages with little face to face contact. Technology used in both case scenarios is very reliant for humans. For example, humans rely on the internet to look up a question if we don’t know the answer. In “The Machine Stops”, they often did not have to ask questions because the technology already did it for them. In relation to the story, they refer to when the machine stops as a “technological death”, which we can relate to the same phrase in a way that if humans did not have the access to technological works, most of our world would not be able to function. People would struggle with communication with their families, difficulties to their jobs, and wouldn’t be aware of what was happening in the world.

“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots”-Albert Einstein. This quote demonstrates that as technology develops and introduces itself more into society, it gains control over humans. Technology has transformed into a huge problem in our societies, since now it’s really important for our lives. Many people are addicted to technology and use it in their daily routines. They use it everywhere they go, like the bathroom and even before falling asleep.Technology is a great thing, but it can also cause a disconnection between ourselves and the people that are around us, as read in the story ‘The Veldt” where the family uses technology too much which causes them to loose connection. Generations now a days are becoming addicted to technology at an earlier age, and use it instead of playing outside with their friends. Also many people in our society are willing to attack for technology. For instance, people are now stealing other peoples’ smart phones because they are so expensive, it doesn’t matter if they need to hurt someone to get what they want, they will do everything possible. Considering that in the story “The Veldt,”by Ray Bradbury the dependence on technology takes away the humanity, which causes people to use violence against each other, shown through symbolism, metaphors/similes and imagery.

Society today possesses an over-reliance on technology. Advancements in technology paved the way for the formation of new applications and forms of social media that potentially lead to the loss of the intimacy of communication and personal relationships among users. As a result of the ease of communication through technology, face-to-face interaction rarely occurs anymore. Long before technology began advancing at a rapid pace, authors used their medium of writing to comment on the dangers of relying on technology too excessively. E.M. Forster’s short story, “The Machine Stops,” written in 1909, highlights a dilemma that society’s over-reliance on technology created between virtual connectivity and face-to-face interaction. That over-reliance, perfect for the futuristic, dystopian society in “The Machine Stops,” also serves as a cautionary tale for the technological culture of today.

Andy Clark, in Natural-Born Cyborgs, offers an extended argument that technology’s impact on and intertwining with ordinary biological human life is not to be feared, either psychologically or morally. Clark offers several key concepts towards his line of reasoning. Clark argues that a human being thinks and reasons based on the biological brain and body dynamically linked with the culture and technological tools transparently accessible to the human. This form of thinking and reasoning develops new "thinking systems" that which over time become second nature thoughts and reasons and are the basis of even newer "thinking systems." It is a repetitive cycle that continues forever being built upon previous systems.

The term cyborg was coined in 1960 with the appearance of "Cyborgs in Space" by Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. Clynes and Kline argued that altering man's bodily functions to meet the requirements of extraterrestrial environments was more logical than providing a controlled environment for him in space. Their "self-regulating artifact-organism" (Clynes and Kline 31-33) would be free to explore

If you were to ask somebody what a computer was sixty years ago they would look at you look at you puzzled. Now days it is hard to find a household or office in America that does not contain at least one personal computer. With all of this information at our finger tips, we have to ask ourselves if we are becoming too dependent on technology. Imagine if we were to wake up tomorrow with all electronic devices disabled. Everybody’s life would be impacted in one way or another. We would lose what has become the largest portal for communication. We would also lose countless information that has

Next, computers change the way we supply our food.With the population growing at such a rapid rate researchers are experimenting with new ways to supply mass amounts of food. Food is becoming more and more scarce but with the implication of genetically modifying foods through the use of computers gives hope to supplying more than enough food. In the debate, “Are We Too Dependent On Computers?”, Debate.org states that "50% farming in US will stop without computers.” What Debate.org is trying to explain is that our society would fall apart without the use of computers. They explain that the farmers have had to adopt new ways and leave their old traditional ways in order to supply the amount of food that the population needs. This dependence on new technology creates a population reliant on computers for research purposes and yielding large amounts of crops. Soon farming will need computers and the traditional ways of farming will be lost forever. Computers used to be used to research how to grow large amounts of crops but now they used as a necessary part to control and research huge agriculture businesses. The reliance on computers to generate our food shows that we have abused the computer instead of finding new ways to feed our rapid growing population.