Blog #21 Time Machine

I enjoyed this movie because i had seen the new version of the Time Machine. It was cool to compare both ideas from the story. I liked this one that we saw but it was nice that the technology had grown since this movie. I felt that most of the parts were very corny and that's what i don't like about movies. I thought it was a good movie to end the year with because i felt it tied everything together. I think that it had a little  bit of each idea that we talked about this semester. I liked that he could travel back and forth between times because usually you cant go back in time according to Stephan Hawkings theory. It was a good movie though.

I thought the most interesting thing we went over this semester was the xenophobia unit. I felt that it was the topic that really related to our society today. Things make more sense to me when they are related to real life. I think that robots are something that is becoming bigger and bigger in our world and this unit helped me think about if its a good thing or bad. In this class I realized how many types of science fiction there is. It was cool to see all the different perspectives that we read about. I liked reading different perceptions that people have of their own science fiction through creativity. That helped me a lot to write the blogs because the things we read were very creative. I also enjoyed the projects that we were told to create. I like that we got to use our own creativity to put them together. It was fun to imagine the types of things that science fiction can create. My funnest project was the one where we created a logo for the escape rout in case we got invaded by aliens. We were able to imagine something that could relate to us in this time and age. I'm an artistic person and the projects that involve markers or crayons is right up my ally. Overall this was one of my favorite classes because it was about things i was interested. All the movies intrigued me and i felt that we learned the background material well enough to understand the logistics of the movies. I thought it was cool to take a look at different time periods of the genera from different authors. I definitely recommend this class to be taken because its a different view of writing than any other English class. One i will for sure remember.

Blog#19 The City on the Edge and Time travel

In the City on the Edge of Forever and the article by Carol Sagan they both ponder the ideas of time travel and the parallel effects that happen during the time travel. In the movie it told ways that going back in time could disrupt the future greatly. It relates back the the "grandfather effect" in the article and how if you could go back in time and kill your grandfather, you therefore wouldn't ever be existed even though you killed him. In the movie, Edith had two paths in like they found out that she had. Be killed by a car, or live on to become wealthy and start a peace movement that happens to cause a catastrophe that costs many innocent lives. When McCoy jumped back into time, he disrupted the natural laws of letting things happen on its own. If McCoy never entered the time machine at that moment then Edith would have died the way she did and there would be no peace rally or Innocent deaths besides her. But when McCoy jumps back, he disrupts the future but for him still the past. I feel that if time travel was possible, that would be a very big problem happening. Us going back in time could cause our own existence to change dramatically. Disrupting the natural laws of life would therefore change the idea that you could go back and live a completely different life. I am a strong believer that everything happens for a reason. I feel that if you disrupt the natural laws of time and age then things will start to fall apart on us. Time travel is a cool idea, but i think that us as humans defying laws of physics could cause us to loose sense of real time and ideas of the future. How can you look forward to the future when your only focusing on the past. I feel that's the beauty of life, is you life for the moment because there is no going back. Life is precious for a reason and i feel that people would change extreame if they knew that they could go back or forward many years. People are here now, living in this time for a reason and a purpose. If we change the time we are here, then our reasons would change therefore changing the fact that everything happens for a reason. I like the idea of time travel, but this technology could cause some major disruption in the universe. I feel that things like time travel should just be meant for our entertainment in the writings of Science Fiction.

Blog #17 Star Treck I Borg

In this star treck episode there was many things that caught my attention having to do with the Frankenstein Complex. To begin, Borg who was rescued from a crash site on his planet didnt really know who he was. I feel that the people on the star treck ship took him in because he was dying and were interested in his complexity. Even though borg was not like the others, they taught him the way of human and how to find yourself. In the beginning when borg was recovering it was a good time for him to understand himself and find friends. It seemed though it was a sort of experiment for the people on the ship to bring him back to health. It seemed crazy though that at the end the captian didnt think he was human or could have emotion even though he did. I think that it would have been selfish to kill his kind when they just helped him find who he was. It was good at the end that they gave him a choice oh his future and helped him understand what a choice is. It makes me sad that he got his memory eraced once he got back to his planet because what he went through made him understand a lot about his life and how he was living. It would have been nice to see him keep his memory and carry on the information to his species. I understand that there was a fear of Borg, that he may alter the peace with humans. He could always go crazy and cause harm to humans and thats a fear that we put into our brain when we see something other than our kind. I feel like Borg had just as much fear that the humans would do something to him than him turning on them. He even brought up that there was only one of him and many humans on that ship. He had the capability to understand his boundaries and his strength against the humans. I only got a chance to see half of this film, but the parts that i did made me understand how lucky we are to feel emotion and go through the things we do, because we could have that taken away sooner than we think.

Blog #16 Reason

I think that this story really is a idea of what could happen to robots if we keep building them smarter than humans. We cant expect to create something and have them not ask questions about their existence. But this situation is how i see a situation actually happen. It is very intellectual to figure out that if you are stronger and smarter than your creator, then your creator must be smarter and stronger than you. That would be my logic if I was created for the use of humans because they couldn't do it anymore. If I was created to know that i am stronger then humans, that's how i would live my life. Walking with superiority and thinking that you are the greatest creation. It is scary to think that if we do create such beings that are greater than us, they will become a sort of cult that knows they are greater than humans. What if we create these robots and they didn't believe the same logic of existence as us humans do. They could create their own race with their own religion and that would cause much destruction on Earth. I think that it is good that they let QT keep going on with his religion because it seemed like he wouldn't get over his logic of why he was created. It also surprised me that they were making the robots to take over the control of humans on the ship. We then have no reason to complain if they rebel against our word because we have put into their head that they are the smarter being. They are here to do the things that humans cant do anymore. They have nothing else but to think that they are the smarter being and there must have been some great master above them other than humans. I don't have a problem with creating robots to help us with certain things but we cant expect to not have these reprocutions along with their creation. The more questions they have, the more curiosity they have of what else is in the world. That causes more conflicts than we are known to handle. I don't know if its all worth it in the end. For all Powell knows, QT could create a great cult to come down to Earth and become the greater being destroying others because they are then smarter than the rules they were created by.

Blog#14 Epicac,Mimicry, and Eyebem

In these three stories we read i seemed to see a theme throughout all of them. All of the robots in the stories carried characteristics just like humans. It seemed as though this was the reasoning behind the downfall of these robots. The more the robots knew about human life and emotions, the more they would realize that they could never be human or have the experiences of humans. To me i think that it is selfish for us humans to create beings that cant feel the same existence as us. If they do, there is a possibility for rebellion due to the fact of wanting to be human and go through the things that humans do. We create beings for our own benefit, and make them do the things that we want them to do. But what happens when we don't give them the ability to do the things that they want to do. Giving someone characteristics of humans and then telling them they cant be a human is corrupt in its own way. We can expect to create something and expect them to not have questions or desires on why they are here. There are no true answers they seem to be able to comprehend on why they were made other then to serve humans and not cause harm. If us humans now didn't have that guidance on why we are here and our purpose, there would be more problems in the world. What if you create a robot that doesn't want to do the things that you made them for. We then wouldn't want to get rid of it because we have grown this attachment to a technology. We shouldn't be making things for our own benefit that looks like humans. It just seems to cause more problems then not. Out of all three stories i thought that Mimicry was my favorite because i could see the frustration in the robots thoughts. Even though i thought it was wrong for the robot to turn all evil on Fen, they still gave her a good reason on being a human. If you were brought into this world seeing love and beauty and family not being able to feel any of it, would cause disruption in your thoughts. I bet it was hard for Mita to watch Fen be in love and have beauty and know that she would never be able to have that. I believe that goes back to her fathers fault for creating Mita to somewhat resemble Fen. In Mitas eyes she seemed like the better fit for the household all she needed was the human body that she desired. That to me is something that we need to think about before we go off creating robots with the same characteristics as humans.

Blog #15 Measure of a Man

In this episode of star trek, there were many things to do with Frankenstein Complex. To begin, DATA the robot of board was singled out by many to be questioned his rights. Just because he was a robot therefore meant that he did not have the right to choose whether he wanted to be tested on or not. To me I think it was good that he ended up having the choice because i feel that if there were multiple DATAs then our whole humanity could be whiped out. They showed the amount of strength that he had and that could cause chaos with society. Even though DATA was harmless, he could still feel emotions and desires. I think that if he learned how to feel that he could also learn how to feel anger and pain. Having those human characteristics could cause disturbance with the human race. The more emotions we put into a robot, then the more of a chance they will become the superior race. That's the thing that scares me, even though DATA seems very helpful, i dont understand when we as humans decided that we were incapable to do these things we are building them for. I am afraid that if we keep making these innovations that are destroying the need for humans, then eventually that will happen. We cant blame anyone but ourselves for the insignificance we have on the community now. We are the cause of our own self destruction, the robots wont be causing this, its us that is because we are the minds behind these robots. We have nothing to fear but ourselves and what we can create.