Terminator of the real world! (Blog #2)

In the 1984 film, The Terminator by James Cameron, we see civilization destroyed by technology due to the creatures making it have the ability to think for itself. In the 1972 film adaption of the novel, Future Shock, we see how fast and rapid technology is growing and changing that we will soon be in danger of destroying ourselves with technology. These two things have many similarities in them. Both describe a time in the future in which mankind is almost wiped out by technology. 

People as whole aren't always the most careful. We fall, we break, we aren't made of metal. However, once you have broken something, permanently, some doctors can give you a metal part to place in your body to fix you up and make you stronger. Some injuries require amputation. Then you can have a prosthetic arm or leg or whatever. The technology in those arms can read your brain to tell what you want to do with it. In the documentary of Future Shock they talk about how they can one day build a fully functioning mechanical human with believable movements and realistic features making it hard to tell by looks that its fake. The thought of that makes me shiver. The possibility that there could be a Robotic human out there sometime in the future, and it could turn on us. Think about it, if we can teach a robot to teach on it's own, won't it eventually begin to wonder why does it have to listen to us anymore? Unless we create rules from them like in the film I, Robot but if the robots are anything like humans, they will begin to break those rules. 

Everyday scientists are trying to break new grounds and because of this rapid change in technology people are beginning to "morph" with technology so to speak. If you take away someone's phone, its almost like taking away part of their brain when you think about it. So many people rely on their phone to remind them of things that the human brain is capable of but people choose not the exorcise that part of their brain. 

Future Shock really showed me how much our technology is changing rapidly and most people are too oblivious or too into their current electronically device to notice. It also impresses me how much media has talked about or dived into the realm in which technology over takes humankind, and people don't even put two and two together.