The Industrial Revolution and robotic functions following didn't allowed for creative output to flourish as the replacement of human function gave rise to mass production and assembly. While the industrial industry has mad our lives easier, Walter Benjamin claims in his Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction that "society has not been mature enough to incorporate technology."Although, society, according to Benjamin, gets more in touch and relative with technology in the 21st century. Robots were originally portrayed as violent and evil machines when they were first introduced to society but examples such as "WALL-E" or "Despicable Me" have many human qualities that make them loving and relatable. Once the robots become relatable, they can then become portray as human entities.
Wall-E shows how we can expand our creative outlook towards robots and maybe potentially one day creative a robot that could be relatable like a human. Rodney Brooks describes in his piece that robot "could have emotions" and could act like living creatures. This is interesting to consider as sometime in the future robots could be intermingling with humans without much distinction. Society in the future must shift their outlook and perception of robots to helpful aid and service from doom and destruction, or else there will be many issues when more robots become involved in society.
Society must adapt to the intervention of robots or else there it will be a difficult adjustment in the future, because robots will only become more and more integrated into everyday life in the future. If Humans do not adapt quickly, robots will begin to take more and more jobs and human society will be left without jobs support or quality of life. Robots are the future, humans must begin to adapt if they are want there to be as little of adjustment as possible.
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Walter, Benjamin. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” 1936. Web.
http://www.reelz.com/trailer-clips/48113/wall-e-clip/
Brooks, Rodney. “Robots will invade our lives.” Online video clip. Ted. Ted, Sep. 2008. Web. 17. Apr. 2015.
http://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-robots-will-take-our-jobs/
Cobb, Russell. The Paradox of Authenticity in A Globalized World. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
I also believe that we as humans naturally want robotics and machinery to reflect who we are as people, and thus robots are continually being made to replicate our image or actions. Maybe we cannot control the future of robotics because we still have not figured out how to control our own relationships with people worldwide. The integration of robots into our lives will be a testament to how far we have progressed as a society.
ReplyDeleteFrom your comment about how we relate more to robots in movies like Wall-e because of how they display human like characteristics and emotions. This reminds me of an older movie, Bicentennial Man, where the robot strives to become human, emotionally and physically. If technology were to be able to produce robots that are so advances to look and act human, I wonder if society will try to redefine the word Human. If robots were to grow past the capabilities of a typical human, how much would society change in technology, science and arts?
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