Hi guys,
Just a quick one, hope everyone had a good long weekend. I did nothing which was fantastic and ended up watching a movie called 'Surrogates'. Bruce Willis stars in it and its about a world in which humans use robots or cyborgs in the real world so as to protect themselves from harm or anything that could go wrong outside. The humans lock themselves in their houses and hook up to a machine in which they can see and control their surrogates - which are also all beautiful and younger versions of the real life humans. I just found this very interesting as it wasn't set that far in the future, and to protect the human race (or what they thought was protection) they used robots to carry out their every day lives, which ends up consuming them.
If you havent seen the movie already heres the trailer. I think it fits in really well for the unit and made me think if it was actually possible for us to end up there. Personally I cant seem to even comprehend not leaving the house or breathing fresh air and living through a robot/cyborg.
Just a small part of my long weekend that I though I would share with you guys
Hello guys,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, Emma B., I envy you because you have nothing to be busy about on study week. I wish I can say the same.
Okay, about the movie. I haven't really seen it in its entirety but the idea of having a robotic surrogate is indeed interesting. However, I can't imagine real people choosing to stay indoors and have their lives lived by surrogates. I mean perhaps in the future we can use surrogates to do dangerous tasks like going to war, venturing into space, etc. but using a surrogate to get to the nearest shopping center and such, I find it impossible to imagine. Personally, I believe we invented technology to make our lives better, to enhance it so to speak. I don't think it will come to a point where we will purposely render our physical bodies useless and have robots do everything for us. The part in the movie where one can actually design a better-looking or younger surrogate is a bit unnerving though (talking about extreme make-overs). Aren't online games and simulations doing that with avatars? At present, we can only do such things online. Who knows what will happen in the future.