Sunday, September 27, 2009

Robot humans, our future?




I saw this trailer("The Surrogates") this weekend and it made me think of elements of our discussion on Wednesday. This movie is about how technology evolves so much that humans don't even have to interact anymore, they live via surrogates. Web platforms such as Second Life scare me because they make me believe that we are headed towards a similar fate as that in the movie. Will humans cease to interact as soon as technology evolves and enables us to do so? Haven't we already seen evidence decreased/ strained person to person human interaction? is this bad? Will we let ourselves get lost in technology or will we find a limit?
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3 comments:

  1. Carson SchoellkopfSeptember 27, 2009 at 9:34 PM

    This is always an interesting topic to bring about. It reminds me of my first year seminar called; Utopia, Distopia, and the End of the World

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    Reminds me of humanoids, that have a few different variations but one in particular being someone who visually looks human but are robots/computers

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  3. hergzySeptember 28, 2009 at 7:38 PM

    I agree....this is scary!! Second life really gave me the creeps too. It's almost like we are all going to lose how to interact with one another because we are so consumed with digital media and soon we will forget how to interact with people....this reminds me of the movie Wall-E which I think gives a similar idea of robots controlling humans.

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