In class we watched the episode "Be Right Back" from the Netflix series, Black Mirror. In this episode a widow named Martha did whatever it took to communicate with her dead lover. She went as far as to ordering a fake robot that looked exactly like her lover. My main question was, would you consider person A, which was Ash, and person B, which was the robot, the same person? In my opinion I think that they both were the same person because the robot had all of the guy's words and thoughts. For example, the scene where Martha asked the robot to punched her, he denied saying that Ash would not do something like that. This episode also revealed a lot about technology. We realized that we are so attached to technology that we fail to acknowledge that there are real people around us. Our phone is the number one piece of technology that is taking over our lives. We do most things via our phones. If something happens to our phone, we feel like the world is ending because we can't live without it. This can be confirmed when Martha drops her phone and it cracks. The phone is the only piece of technology that has her connected to her love one who recently passed away. I hadn't thought of this until now, maybe the episode was also trying to say that technology is a way for us to ease our pain or end our misery. In real life, people use technology such as computers to ease their pain of having to write an essay by hand, or it eases our pain of having to listen to other people by turning the music up to full volume. This is only a thought... What do you guys think???
Tomas, you bring up some great points. It seems like technology is meant to make our lives easier and/or less painful, but often times does the exact opposite. What can we do to change this?
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