Visions of the Future

Robots, are they created or born? I believe they are incredible creations
born from the imaginings in science fiction. They are now reality and a
part of our lives, in our living rooms doing the vacuuming such as
Roomba. The robotic orange machines on wheels are now in Amazon
warehouses, stocking shelves and scanning products. Once unthinkable,
they are now reality and could surpass humans in strength and ability.
Robots are indeed clever imitators of life but can they be trusted? Can
they show mercy? Do they have a soul? Are they capable of independent
thought? I feel their ability might only be limited by us, humans. As the
science fiction author, Christian Cantrell, once said, Its not technology
that limits us. Were the limitation. Our technology is an expression of our
intelligence and creativity.
In I, Robot the main issue was that robots were creating robots, which
could lead to dehumanisation and for me, I questioned what it might
mean to be a human in technologys future. If being a human is to feel,
see, touch, hear and taste, then to be human is to have electrical signals
being sent from our body to our brain. How then are humans different
from robots who also use their electrical signals to interact and
communicate? Sonny was a robot and yet able to express the human
quality of emotion through gestures and intonation of voice. So what
differentiates us from them? What do we have that they do not? What
happens when they start to surpass us? Will they help us, just like

Spooners mothers personal robot, or will they harm us through control

just as VICKI did in the movie?

Robots, are they to be feared or revered? Are robots able to evolve? If so,
are they able to evolve and adapt faster than us? I believe that there is
potential for robotic evolution and that now it has become a future vision.
For now they are limited by our growth and evolution speed but once they
are able to evolve by themselves, the fear of them dominating us is
certainly a possible reality.
In the present, I see that robots most definitely contain the dreams of the
future and they have the power to turn those figments of our imagination
into reality. I have a dream a dream that robots will coexist with all
human beings, reaching the unreachable and making the impossible,
possible. They will be the key that unlocks the door to a brighter and
much more utopian future.
Professor Noel Sharkey from the University of Sheffield is an expert at
robotics. He leads the global campaign to stop killer robots from being
created due to his fear that, robots couldnt determine the difference
between a civilian and a combatant or civilian property and combatants.
His fear of the future and what is happening in the present leads him to
state that humans will not always control the robots when robots kill a
human, it just says appropriate levels of judgement will always be used,
and of course appropriate levels could mean none.

Have robots have already become the greatest invention in history? I truly
believe that they already have, because robots can go into places normal
people would not ever think of such as shooting off into space using
Nasas rockets. They have also been diving into radioactive nuclear
reactors such as what happened in Fukushimas nuclear meltdown. ASIMO,
HUBO and the other robots that mimic animals are all great examples of
how they are the worlds greatest creation for now, but if those robots
were to develop even further, they will become what humans could never
be and they will accomplish what humans could not. They most definitely
carry the potential for immortality, be it crazy, frightening, immoral or
totally impossible to even believe. They are most definitely worth the
effort that has been put into them already and they will be worth the
effort to put in for the future.
I believe that the danger of the past was that men became slaves but the
danger of the future is that man may become robots. If humans really did
become robots, then who is left to control them and help them function?
Who is to blame if some of the robots are defective, or if they
malfunction? Why do humans yearn to be robots? Is it because every
human being desires perfection, if so then why do we associate perfection
with robots when robots can break down, be destroyed or malfunction?
Why do humans aspire for perfection? If we want to be perfect, then the
question is, why are we human?
In my opinion, as robots become more like humans, humans will become
more like robots and in the end, hopefully when robots and humans are

considered equals, maybe robots will become more human than humans
themselves. According to the father of all robots, Isaac Asimov, you just
cant differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. Can
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