After watching all of the Robot Stories and reading some of Turkle's Alone Together it is amazing to me that people could develop such a real relationship with a robot. Maybe this is the problem in our world today. With so much pressure to be accepted into todays society people who feel they have lost connection with real human beings, have now decided to become companions with robots and technology.
I thought that the clip in Robot Stories about the very busy couple who had to bring home a robot baby before they could bring home their real adopted baby was absolutely ridiculous. Personally, I think it is impossible and seems pointless to try to determine how good of parents a couple would be based on their treatment of a robot baby for a set period of time. To me, it is impossible to have the necessary emotional attachment that is needed to be a parent, or just to have any type of relationship. Turkle talks about the problems with cutting out human interaction and replacing it with some sort of technology.
The problem with this obsession with fulfilling emotional discrepancies or emptiness with technology is that once a time comes along where actually interacting with real people is necessary we don't have any idea what to do. I think there are way more people today than in the past who are either socially awkward or people who become anxious when in a social setting. The reason for the drastic increase I'd say is due our society and its surge of technology and artificial intelligence allowing it.
Cody Makin
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