The video seemed to portray what Turkle's message is in her book. Some of the short clips were over dramatic such as the mom trying to get every action figure thinking that would bring her son back. However, that did portray the disconnect between the parent and child with technology being a crucial reason why.
The video also had robots that fixed computers but then wanted love with each other. This goes along with Turkle saying some humans will rely on technology for their sexual life as well.
All in all the video showed up where we could be headed as a society, I mean robots as babies to see if adults are truly ready for parenthood would be a scary sight.
In conclusion, I feel like the characters in the four stories failed to connect in a world of robot babies and robot office workers. Maybe this is foreshadowing to us as a society in the future.
Ryan Hamm
1 comment:
I completely agree with your thoughts on how ridiculous it would be to analyze the treatment of a robot baby to decide if a couple could adopt. To me it takes some of the most important nurturing factor out of the equation, love. It would be very hard to be as dedicated to a robot baby as a mother or father would have to be to a real baby. It is impossible to feel the same way for a robot with no true emotional feelings as you would for a real baby who is just like you in every way.
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