Technology Spontaneously Approaching `Humanity' With The Passage Of Time
Tel Aviv University , Department of Film & Television
Tools once helped early man increase his survivability, and they became more and
more useful as means to achieve our goals. Today, innovations in technology have
allowed us to fabricate tools of increasing complexity. As we recognize that the
most effective tools have human characteristics, such as a computer capable of
learning, we will give our tools these characteristics. If technological
innovations continue, we could actually create tools that are human, or at least
beings that challenge how we define being ‘human.' Ridley Scott's Blade Runner
and James Cameron's Terminator 2 offer two particular scenarios of futures in
which the ...
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save John Connor, given a series of “mission parameters,” initially
characterized by his computer logic. He often advises John based on permutations
of the T1000's next move, similar to the way a chess computer decides what move
to make next. Just as the T800 is designed to perform solely as a unemotional
computer, the ‘replicants' in Blade Runner are designed to work in slavery
without protest. Since it's remarked in Blade Runner that humans develop
emotions by existing for a period of time, it is predicted that replicants could
not develop emotions in their four year life span. So it's easy for the society
in Blade Runner to equate replicants with machines, indicated so politically by
the term ‘retirement.' As in Terminator 2, these manufactured beings are
intended to parallel humans only in efficiency and effectiveness, not in emotion.
Similar in practice to how we solve problems, the T800 is a learning computer,
designed to carry out its objectives dynamically. The Nexus 6 ...
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human. His quest to extend his and his comrades' lives shows that he well
understands the richness of life. He relishes every moment of his life, and he
makes tactful commentaries relating them to the irony of his present situation. “
It's not an easy thing to meet your maker,” Roy sardonically observes upon
confronting Tyrell, prompting us to consider the implications of such a meeting
between creator and created. Following Tyrell's remark, “you've done
extraordinary things,” Roy sarcastically replies, “nothing the god of
biomechanics won't let you in heaven for.” Roy, resentful that he is arguably
less than human, is using tragic sarcasm to describe Tyrell receiving credit ...
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