Sherry Turkle,
I can say that I agree with everything that you are saying
in your article. Robots are something
that we used to look at as something of the future. It is scary to know we have reached the
“future” and robots are among us. I
agree with you that using robots to replace a romantic partner is
ridiculous. Though I can see the
benefits of using a robot as a companion, but going as far to have sex with it
is not only disgusting, it is outlandish.
I could never understand why some people would willingly purchase a
robot as a romantic partner when there are millions of people that can provide
more than a computer in the form of a human.
On the other hand, I can see it being beneficial to the elderly
especially when they were lonely in nursing homes. Though I feel that they still need human
interaction and the affection that they are seeking from a real person, this
may be a temporary replacement.
The whole
fact that technology has taken over our lives is completely true. It is almost impossible to not see someone on
the buses on campus not on their cell phone or listening to their iPods. Now that iPhones have become more popular
than Blackberries, we are constantly iMessaging and playing games with one
another on the countless games applications.
Talking on the phone and face-to-face communication can decreases as a
result but this is the generation that we have grown up and it has just become
something of the norm. It crazy to know
that technology has taken over our lives when 30 years ago people only communicated
through the telephone. How times have
changed!
Kelly Myers
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