Silent Manipulation Alex Proyas’ film I, Robot

In his 2011 The Chronicle Review article “Programmed for Love” Jeffrey R. Young interviews Professor Sherry Turkle about her experience with what she calls “sociable robots”. Turkle has spent 15 years studying robotics and its social emergence into society. After extensive research and experimenting with the robots, she believes that soon they will be programmed to perform specific tasks that a human would normally do. While this may seem like a positive step forward to some people, Turkle fears the worst. The article states that she finds this concept “demeaning, ‘transgressive,’ and damaging to our collective sense of humanity.” (Young, par. 5). She accredits this to her personal and professional experience with the robots. Turkle and her

Technology in this society has already taken a turn for the worst and does not support individualism. For example, Mr. Mead’s town has no people and they have robots as police officers. The police car stated, “No profession’... as if talking to itself (175). “No profession” means that there is no expression about this man’s life. Another instance is when the robotic police car comments, ““And you have a viewing

I Robot, directed by Alex Proyas, is a film that shows how modern technology will advance within the years; making people question their everyday lifestyle. In I Robot, the main character Detective Del Spooner, had us follow his journey on questioning societal expectations. This all began from the creation that Dr. Alfred Lanning, who created the robots as well as V.I.K.I. The main NS5 robot in the movie is named Sonny, who questioned his purpose of life as a robot. This Film was designed to have us question, understand the rules and order in situations and evolve with society.

Technology is defined as machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge. Its original use was meant solely for the service of humans, however overtime it has evolved into something much different. What was originally meant to be an assisting piece of machinery has changed almost every aspect of our culture. The way we think, communicate, lie, and even love has been impacted by the use of technology, and all of this is has made for interesting pieces of literature. In pieces such as Her and I, Robot, we see the evolution of robots and artificial intelligence into a more empathetic and humanlike creatures. This gradual change in our views of robots overtime speaks volumes to the evolution of technology. Technology in literature has become a reflection of human beings themselves, mirroring the very qualities of ourselves that make us human. By looking at the personality that technology takes on in literature, we can greater understand the aspects of ourselves that truly make us human.

The author's purpose of this essay is contemplating whether or not laws should be made protecting robots. Throughout the essay he uses evidence from scientists who have dones tests, and it shows how people act.

While technology is commonly thought of as inventions and gadgets, anything that humans have developed for specific purposes or to accomplish certain goals, such as methods or models, must also be correctly categorized as such. In Cathy Davidson’s essay “Project Classroom Makeover,” she discusses a few unconventional forms of technology such as the educational classroom paradigm and standardization. Similarly, in Steve Johnson’s essay “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” he presents procedural technology, such as self-organizing systems, and conceptual technology, collaborative intelligence. He then utilizes another conceptual form of technology, the complexity theory, to interpret these systems’ seemingly uncoordinated patterns. Sherry Turkle branches off of Davidson and Johnson’s ideas by discussing the consequences of questioning what makes a robot alive in her essay “Alone Together.” This narrative highlights the technology’s effect on humans and the reality of robots either improving or diminishing an individual’s quality of life. Besides the slight apprehension of its future usage, humans are mesmerized by the promising potential technology presents. Additionally, structural or paradigmatic technology is deeply intertwined and inherent within society’s functioning, making it impossible to separate technology from human existence.

In 1982 Ridley Scott’s movie “Blade Runner” was quietly released and received mixed reviews7. As time passed the movie’s fan base expanded and today, many consider it to be one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time. Numerous people consider it Harrison Ford’s greatest acting role, which, considering the competition consisting of Han Solo and Indiana Jones, is no small feat. Originally, critics missed or were confused by the philosophical questions the movie posed but as more people saw it, the movie’s brilliance was gradually realized. The questions Blade Runner posed about the future of computer intelligence were far ahead of their time. A major issue of the movie is that, if AI ever became

By the conclusion of his paper, a reader can realize that their view of what is human and what makes a machine have blurred or even switched places. Carr’s writing explains where humans are through data, how the effects are taking place from the individual to the global world, and finally the haunting illustration of where humanity is more cruel and unfeeling than the machines. In a world with less and less deeper reading, the threat we pose to the future becomes more

Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner presents viewers with a dystopian world of Los Angeles where genetically engineered robots known as Replicants, are executed in an emotionless and indifferent procedure called ‘retirement’ by special police operatives called Blade Runners. The interactions between humans and Replicants highlight the diminishing state of humanity that humans have brought upon themselves. This is not only shown through the conflicting yet human ambitions of the Replicants, but contrasted with the cold and gloomy depiction of humans as a whole. Humans are additionally depicted to be ignorant of the many similarities between Replicants and themselves, often due to a lack of empathy. These depictions of Replicants as a more emotionally attached species prompt viewers to make a somewhat ironic conclusion: that they portray greater humanity than actual humans.

The thesis of the book is science fiction films are modern folklore that forebode society’s gradual machination (1993b; 3). Humanity is mutilated or sacrificed outright, according to Schelde, with excess machines and robots present in our everyday

When you think of new technologies such as robots, or peculiar man-made beings like monsters, what feeling comes to mind? Fear? Excitement? Uncertainty? In ‘The Rebellious Robot’ the mood is happy and exciting, very different from ‘Frankenstein’ where the mood and overall feeling is dark, gloomy, and suspenseful.

Thus, when the statement arises that robots can substitute authenticity, it is looked upon as idiotic through Turkle’s eyes. She states, authenticity for her “follows from the ability to put oneself in the place of another, to relate to the other because of a shared store of human experiences.” Accordingly, robots lack authenticity because they have not been born, had families or know loss. Therefore, when Turkle was confronted by a Scientific American reporter to talk about robots and our future she was accused of being no better than bigots who deny gays and lesbians the right to marry for objecting to the marriage of people to robots. That being the case, if one does not embrace technology, there must be something wrong with them.

The solution may lie in the oversaturation of the living dead in mainstream media today; our inclination has changed from being frightened at a mere thought to having amiable or even favorable disposition towards them. A review of popular culture may have the answer in preventing human-like robots from evoking a feeling of “strangeness,” in the form of desensitization through constant exposure and can be explained through Ernst Jentsch’s theory of “intellectual uncertainty.” Masahiro Mori’s The Uncanny Valley proposes an objective solution to a subjective issue with feelings of “strangeness” deriving from human-like robots, but a deeper examination into the subjective aspect using Ernst Jentsch’s theory of “intellectual uncertainty” from On the Psychology of the Uncanny suggests a likely solution to the phenomena found in robotics

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 robot had been out for 24 hours now and already Jasper has lost his family from the explosions. All 4 of them were dead except for him. He was alone and the frigid night air had engulfed him in chills as he lay on the hard, burned ground.The robot….the robot was originally a government project. Then the AI nuclear robot went rogue, escaping the facility where the tests were being run and started blowing everything up across Dead Creek, Farem, the capital of the Government.