Critical Thinking Blog-Assignment #5

The Promise and Peril of Robots in Film, Tv and Real Life: friends or Foes?

When looking at The Terminator and the trailer for this movie, Terminator is actually after this one women who he is trying to kill and he is  determined to do so no matter what. Terminator in this trailer is described as: "as machine, underneath he has a micro processing controlled system, hes fully armed, tough,outside its human living tissue skin". Also it is stated how is it possible to make something like this?? Something of this sort shouldn't be made until the next 40 years they imply, they think its something of the future that was sent to there time. The main reason for them to come is to fight and to save the one women which can save their future meaning the robots future! How ironic is that ? This indeed is something that is very terrible, seeing that robots do not have a future such as humans do, and terminator is coming to fight for his own? Its so interesting because I see it as robots are trying to be as much as humans in several ways but reality is that robots differ from humans.
Now Looking at ELEKTRO The Westinghouse Motor Man, all you have to do is speak into this microphone and Elektro does as he is told. He then tells Elektro to tell the audience his own story: "he is a smart fellow, as he has a very fine brain, of 48 electrical relays, it works just like a telephone switch board" He than counts on his finger just as a human would and also smokes!? He also states how Elektro is only two years old and still learning. This on the other hand is very appealing to me, seeing that this occurred during the New York's Worlds Fair of 1939, where they have a robot that does what you tell him by speaking into the microphone. Very interesting and appealing.
 I can say that today during the 21st century most people are acceptable of robots. Most people have given their fear up of robots seeing that now today robots are be portrayed as something that will benefit the human race, such as helping out around the house or make the simple things in life more easier for us as Americans. The one thing that people do not realize is the down size of it all, what happens when robots are fully productive and can work on their own without humans telling them or directing them what to do and how to act?  I personally see that as one of the down falls of robots, also the fact that robots are being made to now do things such as much would do in there everyday life, just looking at Elekrto for example he is smoking a cigarette? Since when are robots capable of doing such a thing? The difference between robots of the past and future robots are that future robots are being portrayed as a benefit to humans and to accommodate our lifestyles, unlike robots of the past which were evil and killed.