Saturday, November 26, 2016

The Black Mirror episode titled, "Be Right Back" had to have been the craziest one I have watched yet. The episode starts out with Martha losing the love of her life. As most people are when they lose a loved one, Martha was in a grieving state. Martha's friend signs her up for something that would help her in a sense, but ultimately as we see later in the episode it is just down right creepy and should not be allowed to go that far. Martha results to using technology to help her talk with something that sounds exactly like Ash and acts like he would. Well after talking with this robot through the phone for a while, Martha is told that she can take it a step farther by getting presumably a robot of Ash. The robot looks exactly like the real Ash did. The robot Ash and Martha have many arguments and she finds things harder because the robot does not always react to things as the real Ash would. Now both of these things that she uses to help her with the loss of Ash is very crazy and unreal. In real life this would be like someone losing someone special in their life and then getting a robot who looks and acts like the person they lost. The robot side of this can be linked to the uncanny valley and how we can use technology and make robots that look and act exactly like a person would. All of this is very deceiving from the episode to real life. I do not think we as humans should be allowed to use technology to do make robots who look and act like humans due to the fact that it can be misleading and do way more harm than good. Which can be seen in this episode of Black Mirror in the end all the robot does is cause harm to Martha because she never moves on from Ash and they always had fights and arguments.

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