1. Are we killing ourselves?
Majority of people view technology
like computers, machines as clever.
e.g. iCloud is a place to store
data, why use it? When we ourselves
can store it.
Company are made
starting as a
website because
many things are
free they are
selling themselves
short.
Humans have
designed more clever
robots to make people
seem dumber, we are
eliminating ourselves.
As designers that use programs, we may be
considered as Mac Monkeys.
This century’s generation are now creating
robots for certain purposes, and as robots
they are only program by a person to
respond in certain ways. If people think
robots are so great because they don’t
need to be paid to work and can be
monitored by one person, we are
restricting ourselves of actual jobs in
economics and human contact.
How stupid are these new invention
using robots?
Robot that can answer questions for a certain
response and is program to have human body
language to make it look more human and can
light up with different colours.
It has programed
response that the
creators think would
be asked. E.g. How are
you today? Can you
sing? And because it
can, the presenters
interviewing it ask it to
sing.
They asked the robot
can it do their job? It’s
response is ‘Yes’.
On the other hand, a
company produced a
child robot which has
no face expression
and it keeps
repeating programed
questions and
response to certain
questions that the
Autism child may ask.
The feedback from places that
has these new robots says
Autism children who had use
them, likes that it doesn’t have
emotion to read, they feel less
pressure when talking to it.
They find it’s easier to
communicate to a robot than a
human being.
“We maybe
great
designers, b
ut are we
creating for
the right
things?”
The Autism child hasn’t learnt
human expressions and in the
real world a person wouldn’t
have a programed response.
Is it too late to turn back?
What would it take to get people to stop relying
on digital technology and get back to taking
care of things themselves?
Before all jobs are taken by computers that
function by codes and machines that have
human hands? Than we are left with
unemployment.
Or children with difficulty are suffering even
more due to a person who designed something
without thinking of long term effects?
If it were put into care homes, people there can
be considered as valueless human beings who
lack society communication and with robots as
carers they will have no human contact.
Would it take a war between humans and
robots before people realised we have
disabled ourselves from improvement upon
the human race?
What if we removed technology
and signs?
Someone did an experiment of taking away
the traffic lights and road signs in a busy
junction area.
Drivers had to think for themselves in terms of
when to drive and stop to let others past. Due
to lack of help from extra things, people had to
be 100% aware of what they’re doing. They
will drive with more care because they
wouldn’t want to crash and expects the same
awareness from other drivers.
Karen Pang