The "Uncanny Droid" video about the "actroid" was a little scary, yet extremely fascinating. This is the side of technology that I fear. Soon these robots will be walking down the street amongst humans and we will not have any ability to tell the difference between humans and robots. We will have to change our schema of what a human is because these robots possess so much of what a human is in our minds, yet they are not human or anything close. Hopefully whenever robots begin to walk among us, I will already be dead because this notion gives me goosebumps. But who knows? Maybe they are already walking among us and we don't even know it! What makes it scary isn't the robot itself, it's the fact that we cannot tell the difference between ourselves and them.
The video about the pencil sharpener, on the other hand, made me laugh. How low tech can you get and still need to make a YouTube how-to video about it? But obviously whoever created the sharpener feels that an instructional video is necessary. What's funny about this video is that at one point in time, pencils themselves, as well as their sharpeners, were considered high tech. There was a time period where people didn't know what a pencil was or what it was used for, nevertheless how to sharpen it. We laugh now because we have assimilated pencils and pencil sharpeners into our minds as an everyday object that everyone uses. But how about in 50 years? or a hundred? Will people be laughing at our how-to videos on how to use an iPod? or our iPad for Dummies books? Well, of course they are. And we may or may not be around to hear their laughter. Technology moves so quickly that things quickly become outdated. This cycle doesn't stop with us, it will always continue to evolve.
No comments:
Post a Comment