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Read Sherry Turkle's "Simulation Versus Authenticity" (listed on the right of the page). She poses several questions at the end of the article. Respond to any of these questions specifically or use them as a starting off point to make your own response. Use this blog space to make your comments.
First off, I would love to see a real turtle at an exhibit. I think it would be stupid to have a robot turtle. Either have a real one or a stuffed one. It would be decieving if it was a robot. I hope life doesn't become like the movie "I robot". People should not love robots. They don't have emotions. The child toys that are fake animals that sleep and simulate breathing are so creepy. The children act as if they are real. What if the children get scared when they see a real animal? And then they are confused by the reations of the animals.
ReplyDeleteAlso robots should never replace people who care for others. This can be debatable for factories, but I feel like replacing people with robots is taking jobs away, unless people don't want to do those jobs.
I don't think that robot pets will ever replace real pets. Robot pets would probably be more like stuffed animals, because kids get attached to them, but not as attached as they would be to a real animal. I mean when I was seven I had plenty of stuffed animals, but I still wanted a real dog. I'm sure that kids would feel that way about robots as well. Robots might be good for places like zoos because then the animals won't have to live in captivity. Honestly though, I would still want to see a rare animal in real life. However, robots might be good for therapy. The article said that the robot made the old lady feel better when she talked to it, so I don't see a problem with using them to help people. Yet, eventually that lady may want to see a real therapist, and work out her emotions, and that is something that the robot cannot do.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, whos to say that in the future robots will be limited to children and the elderly? If they're so deep seeded in our culture by then that we trust them with our most delicate citizens, then they will definitely already be helping EVERYONE ELSE by then, and if it has already come to that we will have already accepted them into our society. If THATS the case, then the issue of love wont be a problem, as we obviously are already attached to our android friends. There are always these conspiracy theories about robots and technology... if you've seen basically ANY sci-fi movie it involves artificial intelligence being too cold and logical for its own good (2000 a Space Odessy ring a bell?)
ReplyDeleteIf you look at it my way, I say that thats just human's fear of change speaking. Plus... well were all total conspiracy theorists at heart.
Maybe the future will be like 'I, Robot' or hey, maybe what we have to look foreward to is a future filled with 'Wall-E's... its pretty much up to the individual, because we probably won't get the answer in OUR lifetime.
I'M STILL HUNGRY
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FOR GOOD SAKE WTkurwaF? pople Darvin create theory of evolution to suport his belive that human life started from animal life, but it sems that aome pople are still animals. If you ant to go and see a turtle go to zoo or watch National Geogrphic . Pople brng life Galapao turtle wchich are huge and put them ampng fake animals around it? this is so wrong that even tn year old realize that. And Plus that its a common sence
If i saw a robotic turtle in an exhibit I would;1 be confused as to why an exhibit displaying live animals would have a robotic one, and 2 why any person would rather see a robot instead of a live animal. When I was younger i remember getting excited to go to museum exhibits or to a zoo to see live animals and animals I would otherwise never see. I feel the generation born in today's time is all technology and no hands on with anything. from writing papers, to seeing animals in an exhibit.
ReplyDeleteTechnology is said to double itself every two months. So, it is no wonder that in no time at all, we will be taking our children to museums to look at some of the most basic robots and their prehistoric actions of going forward, back, left, and right. I feel that any motion in todays life that you will have to do again tomorrow will one day be replaced by a robot, vaguely speaking that is. For example, we have seen that with brushing our teeth, you can now buy an electric tooth brush, that takes away the motions or actions of actually brushing. So, brushing my teeth becomes boring just as the girl becomes bored of the living turtle in the museum. For the turtle isn't fulfilling a specific purpose. To take this debate into a bigger picture you would have to look at an individual's life and base on their needs and wants. What bores the child at the museum, or takes her interest away is the fact that the animal serves a better, more specific purpose than to dwindle in a museum.
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