Metro 2033, by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Technology is a vine creeping slowly, ready to engulf the whole of the Earth in years to come. It has been necessary to countless advances in the world, but many think that it could be a foreshadowing of something sinister. The belief in this underlying future has led to dichotomous interpretations of a technological domination. These often focus on robots with an artificial intelligence superior to human intelligence. They are able to defeat the human race, with their advanced, albeit artificial, thinking. It is not difficult to find someone or something ready to preach of the possibility of a robot apocalypse. While a total robot takeover is likely far off, robots are still altering the human world at a rapid rate.

Toward the beginning of the novel Fail-Safe, Congressman Raskob raises his fears over the power of machines then received the response that “machines are developed to meet situations.” To this he responds “Then they take over, they start creating situations.” The Generals there replied that this is highly unlikely and state that “We have checks and counterchecks on everything.” The central issue that leads to all others in Fail-Safe is Raskob’s response “Who checks the checker?” Since no person was controlling the machine that malfunctioned, there was no way to prevent the machine from creating the situation that leads to the doomsday scenario of nuclear holocaust in New York and Moscow. By establishing such a shocking scenario, the novel seems to suggest that; all unmonitored

To study his passion of natural philosophy, he, "..will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation." Victor is perspicacious and well prepared to gain knowledge from the professors he is soon to come in contact with. While Victor triumphs over his studies , his fervor and enthusiasm over, “Life and death... which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me,” constraints his social life to a minimum, including the communication with his once inseparable family back in Geneva. His inspiration of creation consumed him as his, “... cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement.” Victor prepares his animation to have the most handsome features , but awakens the horrid sight of the monsters transparent skin , black lips, and yellow eyes. To his appalled reaction, he leaves his apartment in hopes of freeing himself from the atrocity his own hands

In an age where technology is so advanced that robots replace humans in the workplace, it is no surprise that increasingly fewer Americans are considered full-time employees. While proponents of advancement argue that technology adds a high level job for every low level job it takes away, low class manufacturing jobs will not be the only newly-automated jobs. Due to rapid advancement, computers are projected to be one thousand times more powerful in the 2030s than computers today (McChesney and Nichols, 2016, 246). With these improvements, no human’s job is safe.

Marc Rosenbush’s film, Zen Noir (2004), is at first glance a film thoroughly ensconced in the themes of Zen Buddhism. Set in a dark and brooding film noir atmosphere, the film depicts the story of a deeply troubled detective, at the end of his rope, who finds himself at a Zen monastery in order to solve a murder. But once there, he realizes that things are not quite what they seem to be. As the film unfolds, we find that the world Rosenbush has created for us is wildly symbolic, and it becomes clear that the monastery is a symbol of the detective’s psyche and that he was not investigating a murder, but his own fear of death and loss. If this introspective, psychological element of the film is recognized, the Buddhist themes of the film become conflated with allegories of navigating the Western psyche. It is the contention of this paper that when the psychological themes of this film are investigated, we will find that the alleged Buddhist theme of enlightenment in the film must compete with a symbolic depiction of Jungian individuation.

The author describes how in Metro2 Which trives ittsels in being a Multicultural sschhol, the majority of the schools power is controled by high status mostly white parents. Moreover, unlike West City where the majority of the high ranking officials were white, in Metro 2 the staff was more diverse. Additionally, while Forrest Hills tried to establish a color blind mentality, Metro spoke openly about race power, and racial heritages were ackoledged and contested. The author goes on to explain how while the multicultural curriculum and open conversations and aknoledgement of race, in order to combat issues of racial inequalities, there efforts fell short of acheiving their goal. This school fell short, mainly due to the fact that many middle

Although it may not be fair to condemn the automated-response doomsday device on the basis of a single slip-up, the film invalidates the wisdom of that machine by highlighting its dangers. Would any state cede control of its weapons to computers and sensors?6So the problem remains: how to make the incredible credible. A fallback strategy is to introduce illogic and uncertainty into nuclear strategy and nuclear command and control. Akin to throwing the steering wheel out the car window when engaged in a game of chicken, delegating to base commanders the authority to issue strikes decentralizes military control and makes retaliation more likely.

In any given situation, individuals experience conflicts when pursuing a personal desire as particular desires do not conform to the rules that societies standardize for individuals. Individuals quickly adapt to the modernization of the advancement of humanity and technology. Nevertheless, there may be a controversy deciding between obeying society's regulations of consistently keeping up with the innovative contemporary behaviour or sticking with subjective or independent aspirations. In the short story The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, Leonard Mead’s complication between pursuing his personal desire and choosing to conform creates an issue with the development as an individual. Symbols within the story that further highlighted the distinct difference between personal desires and deciding to conform include Mr. Mead’s shoes, television, and the houses. Moreover, each symbol that was stated demonstrates a diverse idiosyncratic characteristic about the protagonist as does the psychological components of Mr. Mead such as word choice, speech, behaviour and mental processes. However, throughout the story, the protagonist, Mr. Leonard Mead is exemplified through a third person limitedpoint of view as it gradually illuminates the understanding that society’s need for conformation and an individual's needs may produce a consequential disagreement of discrepancy. Ray Bradbury’s short story suggest that conflicts between pursuing a personal desire and

There is a man and woman drenched in sweat trudging away from a crumbling building as tumbles to the ground. Usually when humans hear the word robot it brings the image of the world ending or various items of technology. In today’s world robots are being created to do he hard dangerous things that most humans shouldn’t do such as welding or even painting. Those two activities both be very harmful to the human body. When painting the body can take in a lot of toxins into the lungs causing the workers not to be able to breath. If a robot was to do that job it wouldn’t have to worry about toxins because it wouldn’t be able to feel any pain. Eventually humans won’t even have to work because robots are going to be doing all the jobs humans should

Sharon Olds “On the subway car” used imagery, and organization in order to convey the realization that although the two characters are very different they share one key similarity, they are both hunter and hunted.

In Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery, gentleman burglar Edward Pierce organizes a gold heist. He has the opportunity and means to commit the crime, but his motive is never explicitly revealed. Crichton indicates that Pierce’s motive sprouts not from greed nor necessity. Instead, Pierce commits the crime because he is obsessed with manipulating other people.

To some degree, every artist creates his or her own artistic life preserver, and in doing so resequences and conserves their own artistic DNA so that it may be transferred onto another generation. Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir Speak, Memory, is not only that preserver, but the tug boat that it holds onto, heavy and cramped with the memories and history that Nabokov retells his readers against the currents of time. Speak, Memory operates thematically, not chronologically. Nabokov returns anew to his early childhood and pulls in, as it were, the memories associated with certain themes. Then he turns, changes directions, and sets off again. One such theme that resonates throughout the novel is that of exile and deteterritorialization, both

Throughout his novel Everything Flows, Vasily Grossman provides numerous occasions for defining freedom. In the midst of attempting to give meaning to freedom, Grossman greatly invests in wrestling with the issue of why freedom is still absent within Russia although the country has seen success in many different ways. Through the idea and image of the Revolution stems Capitalism, Leninism, and Stalinism. Grossman contends that freedom is an inexorable occurrence and that “to live means to be free”, that it is simply the nature of human kind to be free (200-204). The lack of freedom expresses a lack of humanity in Russia, and though freedom never dies, if freedom does not exist in the first place, then it has no chance to be kept alive. Through Grossman’s employment of the Revolution and the ideas that stem from it, he illustrates why freedom is still absent from Russian society, but more importantly why the emergence of freedom is inevitable.

People who live on the Machine are now more anxious than previous generations; their lack of mobility has weakened their limbs so much, that they cannot tell what was failing

After Reading Camera Lucida written by Roland Barthes, I was both confused and interested by his ideas. Though I did not understand much of the book, I was able to take a couple of his ideas and really think about how I see photos. In the future, I intend to use these ideas when I look at photos. One of his ideas that I was able to understand is the way he looks at pictures. The other one is his second definition of punctum.