I really don't understand the hype that's surrounding the creation and production of droids. What's so fascinating about creating something that looks and acts like a human., when there are six billion humans already populating the earth. I've heard the argument that scientist will be able to create the perfect droid; a droid that's honest, caring, loving, courageous, and above all loyal to its owner. I've yet to met a man who says he is without flaw, so how can I expect a world that's full of flawed men to create a droid free of any vices. There's and old saying that if you live in a world full of devils how can you expect to live like an angel. In other words if droids become apart of our everyday lives and witness the cruelty of man, how can they not adapt. How can the droids exist and never once exhibit hate, envy, jealousy, or greed? I think the obsession with droids comes from mans desire to be in control, to dominate. For the most part humans are born with the power to choose; choose what they want to believe, choose in who they want to worship, choose who they want to date, choose what line of work , and the list goes on. Initially with droids, humans would be in control: programming them with what to say and how to act. Humans would become puppeteers and the droids would be the puppets doing whatever their owner/master asked, whenever they asked, and wherever they asked them to do it. Furthermore, the one aspect of humans that sets us apart from any other species is our ability to reason, I want to know how well will droids be able to do this. In war would a droid be able to asses a friendly from a hostile? In the event of a disaster like 9/11 would a droid have the wherewithal to coordinate rescue efforts and effectively communicate across several mediums in a time of chaos? For me there's just too many unanswered questions surrounding droids, I cant support any efforts to see them built and implemented into our everyday lives.
The second video on pencil sharpeners was just as intriguing. I never would have imagined a tool so critical in my development as a child would be almost obsolete by the time I reached adulthood. When I was in grade school a pencil, a sharpener, and an eraser were a must. Now that I'm in college I only use a pencil about once every five weeks on various exams, even then my instructor encourages the students to use pen because pencil smears. The one thing I've noticed at Fontbonne is that most classes are equipped with smartboards, TV's, and DVD's but there are no pencil sharpeners. The only pencil sharpener that I've seen in the entire school is located in the computer lab in the library and ironically it doesn't even work. Nowadays all my writing is done on a computer, I guess if you want to call typing, writing. What does this say about our society? I guess the only certainty in life is change. The pencil is no longer the tool that it used to be and with its demise the sharpener has since long been forgotten. I only wonder what's next on to join the pencil and the sharpener in the grave yard, if I had to make a guess it would be paper. With the world going "green", advertisements on digital billboards, books being read on ipads/kindles, and homework assignments being submitted through email there may not be use for paper anymore. What has this world come to?
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