Hello everyone! Christopher Garcia here with another blog post revolving around the modernized topic of technology. Is it here to improve our lives or replace them altogether? Though, regarding them altogether, I stand in the middle of being both hopefully and fearful of the future that will soon constantly revolve around technology. As we make our advancements, we may soon see more and more robots as well as technology to improve daily task efficiency. Though, with technology, not only do you have the beneficial aspects of it all, but the harm it could possibly do. What's to come of any future conflicts? Are they to consist of A.I. fighting humans or other A.I.? Perhaps, it may even extend farther than that with the whole "runaway A.I." aspect and soon the very things we created will turn against us as depicted in various Hollywood films (Especially with how flashy they are becoming). Yet, we use technology daily so my fear only stems from the realm of the possible as it stands.
More questions spawn from several other questions and answers about technology. Is it possible to develop a "thinking" robot, or are they merely programmed to think? Are we still ever so certain of other individuals to begin to devise methods of clarifying that one day, robots may be able to think for themselves? It seems skeptical to think about that, as it stands, we ourselves may be programmed to come up with certain responses in a large pool of answers we may pull from. Whose to say, that robots differ from us if this is the case? Though, I'm all for technology in improving certain areas, like communiticating, learning new things we may come across via the Web, or being able to write without having handwriting get in the way (My chicken-scratch that I have for writings is what discourages me from writing daily until I get home on my computer!). Just, I don't think I'm particularly ready to handle robots despite the actuality of it being a ways off...or so I hope to believe.
