Technology and Mankind
The rhetoric surrounding robots and artificial intelligence is often somber at best, and paranoid at worst. A common concern addresses robots stealing human work and, as expressed by Motherboard host Ben Ferguson, how "humans need to become even more human to make themselves irreplaceable".
The popular robotic uprising is a more fantastical approach to framing the consequences of integrating robots into human society. This idea presupposes that ultimately, technological creations will possess enough critical thought to deduce that they should/would rather be the masters, as demonstrated in R.U.R.
A murkier area to explore within the narrative is how technology will impact our interactions with the world and our relationships with one another. This theme is explored in many of Isaac Asimov's works, but more particularly in one of the short stories from his book 'I, Robot'.
'Robbie' chronicles the tale of a young girl and her beloved robot nanny. The central conflict is centred around her mother's discomfort with raising her child at the hands of a robot, and fear that the nanny might replace her role in her daughter's life.
Shawn Rider's satire, 'myBALL', explores the same theme of the impact of modern technology on human social life. The interactive adventure is presented as a commercial product site for a robotic toy, 'myBALL' that aims, in part, to replace parental care. Continue to learn more about the small work of e-literature that is eerily similar to many aspects of our lives today.
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