While watching the video “Sixth Sense Technology” by Pranav
Mistry, I was shocked. My mouth was left open. I was in complete denial that
something like what was discussed in the video could exist. I began to discuss
what I saw with my best friend who is far more educated with the new inventions
of technology then I am. She began to tell me that human begins are like
machines. Yes, we were the ones to create technology and expand out search to
create new things, but now-a-days, the digital life has completely taken over
our lives. We no longer write our homework assignments. We no longer have to
buy a book required by a professor. Now we have Kindle and the internet. We
have Microsoft word and calculators to help us do math. Reading and writing is no longer the same from 10 years ago. We have access to the web, which makes our homework assignments much easier to do. For those people who are lazy and look for the easy way out, the digital web is the perfect place. It is however and even better place for those who want to learn more. With digital access to information that may be locked up in a room, we are scholars may learn much more because of our research criteria, then those who do not have access to the same documents.
I watched the video “Digital Dossier.” At first I didn’t understand
what it meant, but as the video played I began to think about my own digital
dossier. This video made me think of all the tracks I have left behind and are
leaving right now writing this post. I began to understand how big of a role
the digital life plays in each and everyone’s lives. Even those who have no
access to the internet can be tracked digitally by there cell phones and by
pictures. This video was very interesting and serial.
Gibson’s view of the world is extremely based on its use of
digital technology. With Molly being a great example, we see how everything
that we do can be tracked and followed. Anyone can have access to our life or
whatever of it we place on the internet and or our computer. Humans are very
much becoming robots and doing things on the computer and internet. We are losing
our human value and chose to do most things online. Most of us including myself
do not print photos any more. We save them in our computer or on a disc or USB.
I have come to learn that any one of those picture or anything that you have in
your computer and or online can be accessed by any professional.
You use the term “robots” in the final paragraph. Is there a meaningful distinction between a “robot” and a “cyborg”?
I think there is a meaningful distinction between a robot and a cyborg because one is half human and the other a robot. I think that humans are enabled to feel emotion, sexual feeling, pain, and truth but a robot is made by a human to think whatever way the human wants it to think. If it is left alone, the robot cannot function. It can not under any circumstance feel emotion of its own. A robot does not have a gender or ethnicity. It’s not from a particular culture but a cyborg is.