Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Is the machine using us?

Although Michael Wesch's video made it seem as though "the machine" is an ambivalent being that is somehow connected to us the machine is not using us. We may be using each other, through data exchange on the internet but there is no machine. For there to be a machine using us it would need to be self aware and able to make decisions to manipulate us. We are not in some pre apocalyptic situation before the machines arise and terminators walk the earth destroying everything.
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  1. Ethna LaySeptember 29, 2011 at 5:28 AM

    You are just getting started on this one. Contrast the destructive terminators with a vision (image?) of the constructive force of machines and technologies.

    Keep going -- this looks promising for your paper 2.

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  2. Catherine MSeptember 30, 2011 at 2:20 PM

    I liked the reference to the terminator. Your point gets clearer towards the end.

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  3. JeremyOctober 2, 2011 at 12:29 PM

    In one sentence you say that the machine and us are using each other, but end it by saying the machine does not exist. How can it use us but not exist?

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