This one day
Ever since the beginning of time, Man's lifelong quest is to improve himself, and to improve his status. What better way to do this than to attempt to imitate God?Due to the rapid pace it is progressing at, technology is beginning to put this ability in our hands. It was made to improve our society and overall standard of living - why shouldn't we use it for its intended purposes? There are so many new technologies churning out day after day, getting smaller and smaller. Size does matter, after all.The buttonhole camcorders, the miniscule cameras, the almost unnoticeable microphones hidden in the most unlikely places - they are all constantly used by the authorities to gather evidence against a suspect (and put to especially good use by pirates). When Orwell's novel 1984 was published back in 1949, many began to fear the year 1984 and how the development of technology would affect society.Orwell warned of the emergence of a totalitarian society, one where the people were constantly monitored and controlled by various forms of technology. He reminded the general population that those kinds of technology could also be used to invade the privacy of our homes and keep a constant eye out for any "ungoodthinkful" thoughts or
However, we fear those of our creations which bear too much resemblance to us - we fear losing our humanity in the face of them. Our everyday lives have been so saturated with it that it is now part of the background. It is possible that one day, we will go as far as Eldon Tyrell, and implant memories as well, one of the few things left to us as human beings. The people's violent assertion of their humanity and dominance over what they have created shows the irony of man creating, only to destroy. Committing such atrocities on thinking, learning, conscious beings is simply inviting trouble. Programmers strive to take robots to the next level; to have them learn, explore and create without any human intervention, all traits attributed to living beings. The irony of the situation, however, is that now the general population is blissfully ignorant of the dangers of our improving technology. These "replicants", like those in Blade Runner, are increasingly made to look like us and take our form. This wanton 'creation' of humans is also seen in the latest experiments on cloning. The humanoids are destroyed - pulled to pieces, to show that they are in fact complicated machinery, not flesh and blood. If future robots are able to contain something similar to a digitised mind and personality, the Turing Test would be considered obsolete. This creation of life, an ability originally attributed to a god, is now merely a tool in the hands of humans.
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