english robot script final -

7/23/2019 English Robot Script Final -

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Visions of the FutureRobots, are they created or born? I believe they are incredible creations

born from the imaginings in science ction. They are now reality and a

part of our lives, in our living rooms doing the vacuuming such as

Roomba. The robotic orange machines on wheels are now in ma!on

warehouses, stoc"ing shelves and scanning products. #nce unthin"able,

they are now reality and could surpass humans in strength and ability.

Robots are indeed clever imitators of life$ but can they be trusted? %an

they show mercy? &o they have a soul? re they capable of independent

thought? I feel their ability might only be limited by us, humans. s the

science ction author, %hristian %antrell, once said, 'It(s not technology

that limits us. )e(re the limitation. #ur technology is an e*pression of our

intelligence and creativity.+

In I, Robot the main issue was that robots were creating robots, which

could lead to dehumanisation and for me, I uestion what it might mean

to be a human in technology(s future. If being a human is to feel, see,

touch, hear and taste, then to be human is to have electrical signals being

sent from our body to our brain. -ow then are humans dierent from

robots who also use their electrical signals to interact and communicate?

/onny was a robot and yet able to e*press the human uality of emotion

through gestures and intonation of voice. /o what dierentiates us from

them? )hat do we have that they do not? )hat happens when they start

to surpass us? )ill they help us, 0ust li"e /pooner(s mother(s personal

robot, or will they harm us through control 0ust as VI%1I did in the movie?


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)hen 2rofessor 3oel /har"ey from the 4niversity of /he5eld who is an

e*pert on robotics, discusses the future of robots, mi*ed thoughts of hope

and doubt are seeded into my mind. -e parallels man and robot and

states that a dierentiation between the two will become unli"ely and

even impossible. I am fearful when he states that, 'robots couldn(t

determine the dierence between a civilian and a combatant or civilian

property and combatants.+ -is fear of the future and what is happening in

the present leads him to state that humans will not always control the

robots when robots "ill a human, 'it 0ust says appropriate levels of

0udgement will always be used, and of course appropriate levels could

mean none.+

Robots, are they to be feared or revered? re robots able to evolve into

more complicated sentinel beings? I can foresee that through the potential

of robotic evolution, the fear of them dominating us is certainly a possible

reality. 6y mind boggles as I re7ect on this possibility of life with dominant

robots and subservient slaved humans. This could be the end of the

human race.

#n the other hand, I have a positive outloo" for the future of robots

coe*isting with man. I see robots reaching the unreachable and ma"ing

the impossible, possible. They could hold the "ey to unloc" the door to a

brighter future for the physically handicapped in society. lso I envisage

robots being used constructively in the eld of medicine and science.

8rain surgery performed by robotic precision could hopefully increase a

patient(s chance of survival. In science they can be used as e*perimental


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ob0ects for space e*ploration and can go into dangerous situations such as

the Fu"ushima radioactive meltdown, thus accomplishing greatness

without human loss. /I6#, -48# and the other robots are already

e*amples of the e*pansion of scientic technology. They most denitely

carry the potential for immortality, and for me it sounds cra!y, frightening,

immoral and totally impossible to even believe.

If personal humanoid robots become mainstream, my concern is that they

will outsource human tas"s. re we getting robots to only do menial 0obs

to free our minds or are we getting la!y and not tapping into our full

potential? This could have positive and negative repercussions. -umans

could be freed up for more rewarding wor" or would they become couch

potatoes and suer from lac" of physical, mental and social activity? I

believe that the danger of the past was that man enslaved man but the

danger of the future could be that man will be enslaved by robots.

In my opinion, as robots become more li"e humans, humans will become

more li"e robots and in the end, when they coe*ist, maybe robots will

become more human than humans themselves. ccording to the father of

all robots, Isaac simov, '$you 0ust can(t dierentiate between a robot

and the very best of humans.+ %an you?

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