Critical Thinking Blog Assignment #3

                                                                        

Research Paper Milestone #1

For the research paper the topic that I’d like to work on is  Portraying Robots or Human Clones in Film. The reason why I chose this topic is because I personally like to watch Sci-Fi movies and TV shows because it is very interesting and it makes us imagine what technology might be like in the future. In the contemporary world, robots are already a part of our daily lifestyle, for example, we use our phones or computers to predict weather, the airplanes have auto pilot modes where robots fly the plane and humans don’t have to do much, machines that build our cars, in fact everything today is manufactured by machines. There are tons of examples that prove that we are completely dependent on technology. Today we have built robots that look like humans and be able to have a conversation like one. However, they do not have a true conscious and we can still spot the difference between humans and robots. The way today’s films portray robots have many positive and negative aspects. It raises a debate if weather or not robots will someday become so powerful that they will be able to take over humanity and enslave us. Well I think it’ll be quite interesting to do the research on it and predict what would be the outcome of futuristic robots. A few movie topics that I’d like to research on is AI (2001) by Stephen Spielberg, The Matrix (1999) by the Wachowski Brothers and,  I, Robot (2004) by Isaac Asimov.