The first key feature in my mind map I want to discuss is the colour contrast in both the title and the background. As you can see, there is a colour transition in the background from white to black, as well as in the title from light to dark. This represents the progression of the robots in the novel from the beginning to the end, and just like we read a novel from left to right, the placement of the colour transition was done respectfully to show how the robots transformed from light to dark. In the beginning, robots were innocent technological objects that obeyed their human masters and protected them from harm by abiding to the rules of robotics; however, as the novel progressed, we see how the robots began to learn multiple abilities …show more content…
We see the darker side of the novel I, Robot, with iconic figures such as Ultron and a robot kneeling down on a dead soldier. We can also see the other side of the main focal point, which does not seem friendly at all, but rather deadly, and as you may have guessed, this side of the face resembles the face of the famous Terminator, whose main job is to kill humans. You may ask why I chose to incorporate the iconic figures of Ultron and the Terminator in my mind map, and this is because both Ultron and the Terminator resembles the most to what the robots in I, Robot are capable of potentially doing at the end of the novel. Together, the Terminator and Ultron have the mindset and power similar to that of the robots at the end of the novel. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ultron is the main villain and expresses his hatred towards humanity because he believes they are the cause of their own destruction. As a result, he believes robots and AI to be superior and more evolved than humans, and so he launches an attack on both the Avengers and humans altogether. This is also the reason I placed Ultron’s image alongside the quote expressing dominance and inferiority (with Ultron believing that humans are inferior to him, yet they are the ones dominating the Earth). The Terminator on the other hand, learns to infiltrate society by disguising as a human. When the time is right, they would come out and kill on behalf of the AI Skynet, allowing them to take over the world and suppress the humans. While we cannot assume that the robots in I, Robot are going to kill humans, we know that they have already taken over the world’s economy and politics at the end of the novel, and they have already disguised themselves alongside the humans just like the Terminator. The robots in I, Robot are possibly on the verge of what the Terminator and Ultron did in their respective universes, motivating me to add these iconic characters into
Donna Haraway says, "The cyborg is our ontology...The machine is us." Frankenstein's monster, the replicants, and Star Trek's Borg each is analogous to the monster within a subconscious or unrealized level within modern reality. The unconscious needs of modern technology, the uncertain amount of genetic programming within us, and the unknown about the human's unconscious mind are all objectives explored in the allegorical genre of science fiction as we explore the monster within.
The metaphor of machines enters early into the story, as in the third chapter, the narrator encounters a veteran who claims to have graduated from the same college the narrator currently attends, along with being a doctor. At the same time, the veteran is institutionalized, which shows the resistance to a freethinking black man by the public - or specifically white supremac...
In I, Robot, all robots were programmed to be the same; emotionless and set to follow the 3 laws. Similarly, the humans in Brave New World were created without emotions, and were conditioned to enjoy the jobs they were given. This is proven when Dr. Spooner tells Sonny, “Robots don’t feel fear. They don’t feel anything. They don’t get hungry, they don’t sleep.” Dr. Spooner explains to Sonny that robots are simply an imitation of life, and do not understand, nor feel the emotions of a human being. Also, Dr. Calvin explains to Dr. Spooner that the robots could not possibly break the laws by saying, “No, not these laws, they’re hardwired into every robot.” Dr. Calvin finds it ridiculous that a robot would commit a murder, as it would interfere with their p...
...ls. They are created in factories and customized to one of the five product specifications. They are trained to agree with the implications of society and their masters who control it. When they are not in self induced comas, they happily follow directions like the robots they are. Though the technology in this world is what made all this possible, it is not what caused it to happen. The World Controllers who abused this technology are the ones at fault. Technology is only at evil as the people who use it.
Kesey uses symbolism mainly to represent despotism, while Weir uses symbols of independance. Kesey uses machinery to symbolize what normal society seems like in Bromden’s mind. Bromden often sees the process of someone being made fit for society as the process of a machine: “Sometimes a guy goes over for an installation, all mean and mad and snapping at the whole world and comes back a few weeks later with black-and-blue eyes like he’d been in a fist fight, and he’s the sweetest, nicest, best-behaved thing you ever saw…but I say he’s just another robot for the Combine”. “Robot” in this quote symbolizes normal people who are part of society, which is represented by the Combine. During their first lesson together, Keating takes the boys to the hallway where they examine a dedication to past students. “They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones…believe they’re destined for great things…eyes are full of hope, just like you…you can hear them whisper their legacy to you…Carpe Diem.” The students are a symbol of what the boys could become if they take their independence, or in other words, if they seize the day. Kesey and Weir both use symbolism as a way to show what might happen; In Kesey’s case what is desired and in Weir’s case what is
Throughout science fiction films, there are different icons that vary from film to film. One of the most predominant icons in science fiction film is the robot. Iconography is the visual images and symbols used in a work that can be studied or interpreted. Elements of visual content that appear over and over again in film become visual conventions or icons that are understood by the filmmaker and the audience. Robots are seen in a wide range of science fiction films, which allows the viewer to be drawn to recognition of their expressive singularity. Both Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still and Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet, are icons of science fiction robots, who each carry out a different function and are presented differently to spectators, but are still both visualized as science fiction robots. Gort is a mysterious “policeman”, while Robby the Robot bears no resemblance to Gort and serves as a sort of “butler”. Gort and Robby the Robot obtain super-human qualities which allow them to be innovative and intellectually complex to the audience. Although, both characters may be called the same thing,
First Law: A robot must never harm a human being or, through inaction, allow any human to come to harm.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day begins with a look at Lost Angeles in the year 2029 where humans are at war with machines. Following the events of the first film where a Terminator was sent by Skynet to the past to kill Sarah Conner another more advanced Terminator is sent to kill her son. This new Terminator is called the T-1000 and his mission is to kill John Conner, future leader of the human resistance. His mother is currently in a mental hospital for her attempts to stop Skynet. A revamped Terminator T-800 is sent by future John to protect his past self. When the T-1000 first arrives it kills a policeman to assume his identity to move around with ease.
In both the movie and the book the main theme was technology's effect on society. Within the book and movie, it presented how people reliance on technology was the beginning of their overall downfall. The technological devices in both cases were the robots. In both versions of the story I, Robot, the robots were unreliable and caused a great deal of damage on the societies, and they also foreshadowed what society would be like in the future. In Asimov's book, the world is portrayed in a post-apocalyptic version where the robots have taken over society, and the advanced beyond human control. In the book, they control society indirectly and similar to the way modern society uses technology for everyday use. The movie offers an alternative reality where the robots, like the book, take over society; however, they take over in a more viole...
The first of the many ideas conveyed in Carr’s article is that the brain is malleable like plastic. To explain, the professor of Neuroscience, James Olds, says that “nerve cells routinely break old connections and form new ones” (Carr 4). This means that the human brain changes the way it functions according to the information manipulated by neurons. In the novel Feed, brain malleability is involved in the climax of the story. The feed works as a computer chip being directly inserted into a person’s brain. The climax of the story occurs when Titus and his group of friends get their brain chips hack. Before the attack, Violet, one of the main characters, never questions the society she lives in. However, after her brain chip is affected, her thoughts and brain functions rewired and from then, she starts to reflect on society. Given the climax of the story, the novel illustrates how even a brain chip cannot stop the natural malleability property of the human brain.
Asimov’s robots can be described as clumsy, hard-working, cost-efficient, soulless, strong, fast, obedient, human-made, a cleaner better breed, more human than man.
Robots are made to run without flaws and can outperform the average worker. This is because there are fewer employees working that need to get paid. This is not a good thing as it might seem. In China, robots almost completely replace human workers to save money.
I don’t think there is any reason for these robots to have every ability that a human does. There is no way they are going to have the intelligence a human does. Artificial Intelligence is just going to bring more harm into our communities. We can’t trust the robots doing the “everyday” human activities, they are going to lead to unemployment, and will lead to laziness causing more obesity.
Robots have many tasks to accomplish in the world, from doing work to playing with humans. Generally, there are few types of robots for these jobs. There are general-purpose robots used to do many functions like walking around or talking to people. Some of these can move by themselves, and some of them try to mimic humans. Robots are also used to work rapidly and efficiently. Factory robots are usually cheaper than human workers, and they can work more efficiently. They can assemble...