iRobot

Biotechnology

            In the movie clip from “iRobot” robots are taking over the world in Chicago in the year 2035. These robots are not supposed to harm humans because that is the number one rule about robots that they can’t harm people. But these robots are causing destruction and harming the humans, even killing some humans but nobody believes that the robots are killing humans until it is too late. So a detective who is played by Will Smith go on an investigation in order to try and see if these robots are really responsible for the death of some humans. My personal response to this work is that the people should have seen that they robots were destroying and ruining their lives so they should of tried to stop them and eliminate their power. This goes to show you how the rapid advancement in technology caused many humans to die because they robots were actually more powerful than the humans, who are supposed to be the most powerful species on Earth because there are so many of us.

            The purpose of this work is to show how powerful the technology could be in the future. The robots were so powerful that they could even kill humans, which made humans afraid of them. The robots brainwashed the humans into doing everyday chores and everything else that they wanted them to do because the humans were so afraid of the robots. This reminds me of the book Fahrenheit 451 because a similar brainwashing was involved in the book that was also involved in the movie clip from “robot.” The robots brainwashed the humans in the movies, and in Fahrenheit 451 the government brainwashed the people into believing that burning the books were alright. This shows you how powerful our technology could be getting in the future and how fragile the people are. People are afraid to speak out against things and break out onto their own pack. They always want to follow what everybody else is doing and that is not necessarily always right. The specific techniques used to achieve this purpose were the robots acting as humans which shows you that the robots were taking over the human lifestyle and they were slowly pushing the humans out of the way they used to do things. For example the robots were walking dogs down the street which is what humans usually do on a daily basis. The overall effect of this work is to show you that the future will have a rapid advancement in technology and we have to be ready for it. In this movie clip the people were not ready for this rapid advancement. The robots took over their lifestyle and that led to their destruction. The robots were treating the humans as slaves and this shows you the struggle for equality in that society because of the way the robots were treating the humans.

            In this clip the word human means you are brainwashed by the robots into doing everything that they say because you are afraid of them because they are so powerful. The word human means you are being controlled by someone instead of you being able to make your own decisions and live your own lifestyle. It is like you have someone running your life for you. You are not being treated equally and you have no say in what you do and don’t do. It is like you have a king ruling you and he tells you everything to do and gives you certain rules and regulations that you have to follow or else you are going to die.

            Our depictions of the future reveal that the present is much easier than what we as humans make it seem. We make it seem that we are living such a horrible life but in reality we really have it made and we are lucky for what we have because not everybody is as fortunate as us to have what we have. Especially us kids, we are growing up in a world of great technology and great activities that we can pursue. We have pretty much everything and most importantly we have the ability to do these things. A lot of people in other countries do not have the freedom that we have. They are being ruled by a dictator or it is not safe for them to go outside and do the things they want to do because of war or for whatever reason. In the movie clip from “irobot” they used images and language to manipulate people’s minds by showing the affects that the robots had on the people. The caused the people to live in fear and they manipulated their minds into doing everything that the robots asked of them. In this movie, the robots were far more powerful than the humans, which seem scary because we could be faced with that in the future if our technology keeps on making rapid advancements.