Thursday, March 10, 2011

The 5 Future Technology Movies

We are tasked to make a reactiom about the movies which are the Wall-e, Eagle Eye, I,Robot, Surrogates, and the Pirates of Silicon Valley. So basically, these are the things that I thought about the films.

Wall-e

What would life be if humans were too dependent on the technology? The answer is, it would cause a huge alteration between who’s the superior one, Humans or robotics. The movie Wall-e shows that sooner or later the existence of life will totally be different. It’s like contradicting the human developmental stages where it affects the physical systems.  From a being that can walk to a “can’t” one. Well, at some point, robotics do has its positive side. Doing everything that human can’t. Scientists today can only dream of having a robotic explorer like EVE. But some researchers are working on autonomous spacecraft, airships and rovers that can cooperate intelligently while exploring distant worlds. An orbiting spacecraft to make a global survey for interesting scientific targets, before deciding on its own where to deploy an airship such as a dirigible. The airship could look even closer at a region to find the best landing site, and finally drop a rover or some other surface explorer. That surface explorer could then move quickly to the target area.

Eagle Eye
 
In a world populated by empty, vacuous action films, it’s refreshing to see a production that tries to inject proceedings with at least a modicum of intelligence. It implies that time would come, robotics will rule the world. Robotics controlling humans instead of the opposite one. It would create a chaotic world if a robot turned against its creator. However, as the complexity of robots has increased, so has interest in developing guidelines and safeguards for their operation. Some experts and academics have questioned the use of robots for military combat, especially when such robots are given some degree of autonomous functions. The impact of the hypothetical possibility that robots and computers could become self-sufficient and able to make their own decisions. The possibility and the extent to which computers and robots might be able to acquire any level of autonomy, and to what degree they could use such abilities to possibly pose any threat or hazard. Some robots have acquired various forms of semi-autonomy, including being able to find power sources on their own and being able to independently choose targets to attack with weapons.

I, Robot
 
A battle between the saints and evil. The right and wrong. The truth and lie. A movie based on the Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics but turned out that the robotics turned against its creator. Self-awareness as depicted in science-fiction is probably unlikely, but that there were other potential hazards and pitfalls. Once the accelerating pace of technological change allows us to build machines that not only equal but surpass human intelligence-we´ll see cyborgs, androids and other combinations beyond what we can even imagine. On the other side, this movie shows that a robot may not harm a human being, unless he finds a way to prove that ultimately the harm done would benefit humanity in general. If in the future, human-like robots will be created , a principle like this one would exist, ”A robot must protect its own existence” and so does human. Robotics can become the tools of murder, provided they are not aware of the nature of their tasks; for instance being ordered to add something to a person's food, not knowing that it is poison.

Surrogates
 
The future of robotics has certainly been addressed several times over. From books to movies, virtually everyone has at least some idea of how they believe the future of robotics technology will play out. Human experience is marked by a refusal to obey our limitations. We´ve escaped the ground, we´ve escaped the planet, and now, after thousands of years of effort, our quest to build machines that emulate our own appearance, movement and intelligence is leading us to the point where we will escape the two most fundamental confines of all: our bodies and our minds. Androids for the future? I think that would be nice. Anyone can be whoever he/she wants. But just any other technology creations, there’s still a possibility that Androids are capable of violating laws. Scientist’s debates the possibility of human-like robots could think and act like human or not. If ever the possibility is high then a new genre of world is being created. The future of robotics technology looks bright. It has been pondered however just how robotics technology will affect future generations.

Pirates of Silicon Valley
 
The Pirates of Silicon Valley is a flick about the rivalry between Steve Jobs, the one who introduced the Apple Computers, and Bill Gates of Microsoft. The movie draws out the historical development of these two large computer companies, from the time when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs’ college days to 1985, in moving pictures using old cinematography. It is an enlightening depiction of the evolution of a true phenomenon, the age of personal computers. The movie also emphasized the negative qualities of the two gentlemen that are now having big names worldwide. Despite of the unenthusiastic attitude of Steve Jobs to his team and co-founders, he still managed to uplift and give a renowned recognition of the Apple Company. On the other hand, Bill Gates also tried to put everyone down who are in the same business even though Microsoft at first was an underdog. Still, he survived and also made Microsoft as a threatening counterpart to Apple. What was really amazing about the film was that the two contenders actually worked together until Steve Jobs realized that Bill Gates developed Windows using the software that Apple had programmed for their computers. The movie is really interesting for it caters the audience not only the development of the two largest computer companies but also the curious students specially students studying computer-related courses. The character of Bill Gates was quite hard to understand and I just kept seeing him as that nerdy kid who is nuts about computers but the characters of Steve Jobs and Bill.

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