Blog assignment #6

From reading The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil, and the Alpha Dog Porto video, I understood Artificial Intelligence. In The Singularity is Near, technology is vividly used. Technology is obvious to anyone reading this story, very important to Ray Kurweil. I agree that technology is very helpful today for almost anyone. Technology is helping me to post this blog assignment right now. Technology is used to get me to class in the morning. Without technology, I really don't know where I'd be. We depend on technology for almost every given thing in the world. Then there is a point where I do disagree that technology is extremely important. I am not one sided in this argument. This is so because, how did people make it in life before technology was invented. Technology is also a distraction, as it is to this blog assignment that should have been done a days ago..instead there was pacman, games... but anyway, technology has come in the way of learning about the past. People used to get to places further than you can imagine by feet, or man-made canoe  and such. What happened to those days? What happened to the days people survived on their own, without anyone's help? Technology today is just taking away the life that was once lived. Okay, now as for the video on The Alpha Dog Porto. So this machine was designed and looked like a horse basically. It was a very, very  powerful machine. So powerful that men tried to push it to a side, and failed badly. Now, who in their right mind would even think to make a machine that huge and powerful? One day someone could make something like this, and it can get seriously out of hand. Then what do we do? People can seriously get harmed from technology.

Blog assignment #7

Never Let Me Go helps me understand an imaginative text and see how this literary or cinematic text can offer in understanding one of the topics from class. I chose Never Let Me Go, a novel and a movie by Kazuo Ishigur. Clones and humans are very similar, as one can read from the novel. By reading this novel, I learned that humans and Clones are very much alike, and have emotions just as each other. They both live basically the same way. Clones have feelings and such like humans, but the author thought of this as a bad thing. He wasn't very sure if it was a good idea or not. At first, before watching this film and reading the novel, I looked at cloning as a bad thing. I thought that I didn't want someone to look like me, and I don't want another person like me. But then I realized, I've always wanted a twin, and this wouldn't be much different. I no longer had a problem with clones because of the fact that they are harmless. The author does take sides, and doesn't like the idea of cloning, but also gives others, as readers a chance to decide on their own if clones are alright.