Sometimes relying on something to do a job for you isn’t the best decision to make. In the story “Who Can Replace Man?” by Brian Aldiss, machines are doing all work for mankind. Almost all humans are dead. Human society is conveyed throughout the story’s portrayal of the machine society in many ways. Human’s lives when machines have taken over, are much different and dangerous than they are now. In “Who Can Replace Man”, something shown about humans is that they can be much weaker than technology if technology gets strong enough. At the end of the story, when they think all mankind is deceased, they find a human that is still alive. The man shows how weak humans become when machines have basically taken over the whole world. The text shows how weak humans have become by telling what the man at the end of the story looked like. It says, “He was small and wizened, with ribs sticking out like a skeleton’s and a nasty sore on one leg. He shivered continuously,” (Aldiss, 149). This shows me that once technology takes over, humans won’t be able to do anything for themselves. The man in the story was too weak to take care of himself and take care of what he needed to. …show more content…
They seem to be lazy because they leave all of the work for the machines to do. Humans had given all of the work to the machines that they had done before technology came along. The author states, “Morning filtered into the sky, lending it to the gray tone of ground below. The field-minder finished turning the topsoil of three-thousand-acre field” (Aldiss, 140). This scene shows me that what the machines have been doing, isn’t healthy for the earth and has been damaging it. If humans saw what was happening everywhere because of technology, mankind may have started taking care of what was happening around
As the “gaseous dust and debris” of the social world slowly fades away, mankind is left standing in horror, not from the utter destruction, but from the methodical, unyielding takeover of technology over its body, mind, and essence (Kroker 15). In his 2014 essay, Exits to the Posthuman Future, Arthur Kroker proposes how humans are slowing succumbing physically and metaphysically to the data-driven world that is gaining momentum from the exponential growth of technological advancement. In actuality, Kroker’s inability to clarify the boundary and distinction of the corporeal human leads to horological uncertainty concerning the posthuman future. The vision of the posthuman future is destabilized by how Kroker underestimates the ability for man
Machines probably meaning the computer or any electronic devices that we use every day such as our mobile phones. Comparison Thesis A utopian society cannot be achieved in a world where individuals are selfish. Character
What do you think, do you think technology is to you? In the story “Who can replace a man”, Written by Brian Aldiss, he talked about how our society relies so much on technology. The message that the author is trying to get across is humans are too attached to technology. I think that he is right and agree with the author's message, here's why.
To live in a world where machines will have most of the skills that humans have had for centuries can only bring more conflict within society. We are already living in a rapidly advancing society. To the scientific mind, this kind of world can either be a dream come true or an irreversible nightmare. My view is that this rapid progression is a disturbing trend that has to be slowed down, even stopped entirely. A radical depiction of this kind of world can be seen in the “Terminator” films and the film “I Robot”.
In “Better than Human”, Kelly mentions that it will be a trend for robots to replace humans on most, or even every working position in the near future as a outcome of the development of automaton-related technology. “We need to let robots take over”, Kelly assures, “they will do jobs we have been doing, and do them much better than we can (Kelly 311)”. With his observation of the invention of Baxter, he is persuaded in a great extent that humans will acquire new jobs as their old jobs get replaced by automatons. This newly invented robot surprisingly contains several epochal features, disregarding its extremely low price compared to its predecessors. With its benefits, Baxter can be promoted easily and applied to many industries, decreasing the costs of production and even re-generating the market eventually.
Paul ever thinks about the evil things that erases humanity in men. At that time a light suddenly has flashed. He sees his face in the mirror which is framed by fluorescent lamps. In that, “Over the mirror was the legend, THE BEST MAN IN THE WORLD FOR THE BEST JON IN THE WORLD” (221).Kurt Vonnegut’s main intention is to express his view about machines and according to him human beings are more valuable than machines.
The humans using machines always results in something bad happening to the machine for example we see Chappie getting into dangerous situations and killing people and with EPICAC he ultimately kills himself. In both texts, the respective author or producers added these messages to prepare us for the future of conscious machines telling us that when they inevitably come, we need to respect them and treat them as humans and forget about the prejudice from the past or things much worse than in the story could
How he watched his kinsman be ruined and slaughtered and there is nobody alive in this world that the wanderer can share his thoughts and feelings with. In the wanderer he states “An ambitious man can conceal his sorrowful heart, but he cannot escape it.” In this it means that even though men are supposed to be the strong ones and keep everything to themselves, they are not allowed to ignore how they actually feel on the
At the beginning of the story the field-minder was turning topsoil and went to get potato seeds. That’s where we first see the relationship between humans and robots. He finds all other robots running around, with no orders. The robots explain, “If all men have broken down, then we have replaced man,” (Aldiss, 143).
A world of robots working in factories, markets, schools, companies, and limited amount of work space for humans that’s what is going on. The things we saw in movies and what we were dreaming is all becoming reality. Recently, technology has been improving in a very rapid pace. Technology, such as smart phones, tablets, and television, made our lives easier and more convenient. Now people can click a button and deliver food or items they want anywhere.
If man were to face nature, man will always lose if not accompanied by another. The powers of nature are much stronger than a single human body. Sometimes nature can be cruel, and other times it can be beautiful. In the story of, “To Build a Fire”, the character faces nature head on, alone. He had no company other than the dog that followed him around.
In relation to the topic of how modern technology has altered our identities, nowadays modern technology has replaced many humans; technological machines have now taken some jobs which used to be done by humans. Many packing firms have employed machines on production lines to increase production efficiency, this relates to the message because many people who used to have jobs at these firms now feel unfortunate and have to perceive that with improvement of technology it can alter their
In the future presented in the film, humans have become exceedingly dependent on robots in their everyday lives. Robots have become more and more advanced, but each one is preprogrammed to always obey humans and to, under no circumstances,
A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied around his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who