Technology has now advanced in ways that affect our emotions. It for a fact affects everyone differently because some are able to distinguish real from fake and reality from our fantasy. This is all a smart trick to get people to use their apps and spend as much time as they can so they can make money but when emotions are involved you don’t see it that way. They are giving people what they think they want or need. It all starts off with curiosity then leads to entertainment and lastly emotional attachment. Digital life is now being confused with real life because real live people are on social media talking and sharing experience. Replacing people with robots is another extreme that I can’t get with. All the movies I watched with robots started off a good idea until the robots became dangerous and tried to control the world, for example “I, robot” with Will Smith. We are at phase 1 where robots can talk and text us on our cell phones. For example, Siri and Alexa are on our phones to help us communicate what we want and need. The next phase could be physical robots that are replacing people at work like reseptionist and cashiers and door means in means to make experiences easier for people. I don’t like it but I can’t stop it. It’s coming within a matter of time.
In the podcast Note to self-Talking to myself the lady made a point where she said that we were once talking to the waitress when we were at a restaurant instead of being on the phone and in this case the guy was talking to his replika on an app which imitates him. That just shows how much society has changed. People no longer have genuine in person connection with people that used to happen when technology wasn’t in the palm of our hands. The Episode of Black Mirror “Be Right Back” was a very emotional episode that ended in a way that should teach people that robots can’t replace a person even if they look alike, sound alike. The way people portray themselves on the internet is not the same as in person. The lady wanted her dead husband back but that was impossible so she used a technology that would bring a robot that looks just like her husband and sounds just like him too. Though spending time with these robots she realized that it was not really her husband even though she wanted it to be so bad especially for her child. At the end I wonder what she told her daughter about the robot living in her attic. That would be an interesting story that would impact the daughter’s relationship with the robot. He was just there to fill the moms void of losing her husband. He technically is a robot right? He can’t sleep, breathe, eat or snore.
Weekly news:
A Lot of people have been moving out of New York City after the pandemic hit hard. What are your thoughts on it?
https://nypost.com/2020/08/11/new-yorkers-flee-nyc-in-droves/
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I think you brought forward some interesting points. I think a lot of the Black Mirror episodes definitely stress the fact that we try to fill our voids with technology when the real underlying craving is human interaction. Although technology can try its hardest, it simply cannot compare. However, it can be just as addicting.
Another really cool thing that you brought up was how Martha could have possibly introduced the robot to her daughter. I think that this will affect her relationship with technology and with her view of how it fits into her life. I think that this is relevant when discussing any technology, even with our common ones like IPads or cell phones. Nowadays we just give our children access to different technologies at a young age which could be why each new generation is more and more dependent on it.
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Hello, yes we are seeing the world changing and yet we can do nothing about it. Bots are taking place of a real person but my question here is why is this happening? Why people are going towards the bots than to talk to actual human beings? Yes, we cannot stop the revolution but what we can do is we can limit the use of the technology in our lives. We can limit the desire to talk to someone only to the real persons. This will help us in long term. The suggestions on the problems can only be taken by the people who actually can feel or pass through the same thing. How can a bot tell us how’s it feel when you hit hard by a truck? Same how can a bot fix your mental health problems?
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Hey Yassa,
The technology is being used as differently as different people are using it for different purposes. It can bring a person to the fantasy yet open up the doors for reality for many others. The use of technology will define that either it is beneficial or creating worse situations for people. We cannot blame the technology but yes we can blame the people who are using it in a bad way. The world is changing and so do we have to change our mind, so I think it depend upon us how we want to face this change? By adapting it or by denying it.
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